In his article, "Secrets of the Brain", Carl Zimmer reveals both revealed and un-revealed secrets of this electric powerhouse of an organ. Speaking on his own experiences as a human trial in tracking brain activity and neuron frequency, Zimmer divulges the remarkable discovery that all thought circuits "intersect at right angles, like the lines on a sheet of graph paper. . . . 'It's all grids'." The motivation behind this discovery was, and continues to be, the hope of better understanding and treatment of mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, autism, and dementia. This quest continues to progress by questioning how our brain perceives and processes the world around us, how these thought circuits are connected, etc. How is this this
