Interesting interview with Cori Bargmann

Cori Bargmann is the Chair of the  advisory commission for the Brain Initiative.

She studies worms.

Here's the link to the interview: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/cori-bargmann-puts-her-mind-to-how-the-brain-works.html?

Here's the comment I just posted on my Facebook page (which should not be directly accessible to you):

She's a good scientist, but misleads when she says that studying the worm brain might help understand the human brain. It might, but already it's clear that it probably won't answer any of the important questions, like how does the cortex work? Essentially she's looking for her keys where the light is, not in the dark place she dropped them. Of course there may be interesting objects under the lamp-post - even a million dollars which would buy a good locksmith, but it's rather unlikely. To understand the human brain you have to study the cortex directly: try to find the out what the circuits are and what they do, and above all whether there are general principles that underlie the observed variations which specifically explain the features we are most interested in (eg intelligence). Of course evolution does manifest a type of intelligence, and there may be interesting deep connections with neural intelligence.