Progress in neurobiological research must maintain a delicate
balance between the fascination of basic explanation of clinical and
physiological phenomena by means of chemical and physical concepts
on the one hand and the pressing needs for the development of
new and effective treatments of disease on the other. Advances in
basic biochemistry and biophysics often give rise to developments
in the clinical field, but mature judgment is required to select
from the vast detail of biochemistry and biophysics, those parts
which are likely to apply to human disease.