“We do not see what is there — we see what we want to see.” This sentence captures both art and neuroscience. Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel reminds us that vision is not a passive recording of reality, but an active process of interpretation, shaped by memory, emotion, and expectation. About 150 years ago, with the spread of photography, landscape and portrait painting began to lose their dominance. A time of unprecedented experimentation — a true age of big

I made it through my first year without much trouble, while the clinical rotations left me burnt out by the end of my second year. No ...

Encountering cases of severe schizophrenia, I find myself questioning—what is “personality”? Before starting my psychiatry rotation, my...