Dr. Michael Kilgard

They are fully restored to normal hearing and conversation, but it's a small subset.

The list of things we've cured is small, but those are proof of concepts that if we understand it, we can cure more.

Not just alleviate, not just treat, but cure.

Self-injurious.

I have recently a new explanation because it was frustrating to me being raised by these fathers like we both were who studied neuroplasticity and talked about it and trained about it.

It was frustrating to me at first that people didn't get it.

I've come around in my way of thinking about this.

It was smarter to hope that it was going to be simple.

It was smarter to hope that drugs would work.

It was smarter to hope that a stem cell could be added, that there was one cell type.

That's actually not unreasonable.

If your car is broken, hope it's something simple.

Don't start off with the most complicated one.

It's sort of Occam's razor at a societal level.

The question is how long do you keep doing it?

And I think you're making this point.

You've got this one nice paper with adeno-associated virus gene therapy changing things.

These are all on the table.

All of them.

Now, some of them are more safe than others, some are more challenging, but the combination therapy, we have a combination problem, and it's a pretty big problem, whether it's obesity problem or degenerative disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders.