From Synapsia to Ideas: Nitric Oxide and Sensory Roots of Knowledge

The famous Czech writer Milan Kundera in his essay The Abused Heritage of Cervantes wrote: The boom of sciences drove a man into the tunnel of specialized disciplines [1]. With increasing specialization, many doctors come into a contact with the same patients only episodically. In addition, there are also time limits for individual patients. There is no time to apply knowledge across different levels and areas. The happiness of science is that there are no such limitations and our meeting is witnessing it. In contrast, research on nitric oxide (NO) demonstrates that a transdisciplinary approach is not only possible, but also necessary: in the case of NO it combines cardiovascular physiology, neuroscience, molecular biology, psychology and even noetics.