Dr. Michael Kilgard

They just can't do it.

We can switch from a mode of just labeling them, diagnose and adios, to a new mode of how can we assist you?

And it might be changing lifestyles, changing diet, changing experiences, changing rhythms, changing friendships.

But it might also be, in some cases, there's a real problem.

Dopamine cells in the substantia nigra have died.

We're going to need to make this change.

We need to put a stimulating electrode in.

Or if the hair cells in your ears all die, you can't hear.

We now know why that is.

They're not punished by God.

They can't hear because the little vibrations in the air that we can't see aren't getting into their brain.

So we take a cochlear implant.

We take a microphone.

We record the vibrations.

We put it into the brain in the right way.

And now many people can hear.

That was a miracle not too long ago.

Now it's a technology you can just go buy.

And moving that progress of neuroscientists, some things like schizophrenia, we've made very little progress.

It's very hard to figure out what we would do.