Dr. Michael Kilgard

They don't want to be a little better.

They want a cure.

And so for some of the mental health conditions –

not the ones we chose necessarily, but some of the ones we stumbled upon, we found that that rewiring of the brain is so possible that you can take symptoms and push them all the way to zero.

But what happens if you're in that group where you're in the 60%?

You go to the therapy, you relive, you work with the therapist, you go through all the stuff, you do all the work, and you still have intrusive nightmares.

You still have great fear of this.

You still have a pounding heart, hypervigilance, avoidant behavior, all the hallmark signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.

What do you do there?

And you can't blame the psychologist.

You can't blame the patient.

They've done what they can do.

We now come to neuroscience and say, well, what are the new avenues?

What do you guys understand?

How could it get stuck?

How could it be broken?

And we used to think it was demons.

Then we thought it was humors that are wrong, high or low.

Now we think it's wires.

And the answer is those wires are hard to change.