"That’s a surprise, considering how well this area has been studied by researchers" Is it? We don't know much about the individual types of neurons at all - it

"That’s a surprise, considering how well this area has been studied by researchers" Is it? We don't know much about the individual types of neurons at all - it's a sisyphean task, there are just too many. We don't even know how a brain really functions, because it looks like it's not just neurons and there has to be much more to it. Considering the complexity, I'm almost certain there are many more mechanisms involved. Remember: the brain doesn't come into existence with a fixed structure, it is built up from an over-connected state, synapses are pruned during development and after that it continues to change its structure over time depending on the input from the environment. It's not that simple and I don't think that we'll ever be able to understand it completely.