Dick Swaab is team leader ‘Neuropsychiatric Diseases’ within the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. The Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience is a merger of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research and the Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute.

Mr. Swaab talked about different brain regions and how they are related to things like social pleasures, higher order pleasures, epileptics and depression.

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