Dr. Michael Kilgard

The neuronal wires, the synaptic connections.

It's hard to find the right one.

How is that?

There's 150 trillion of them.

Which ones are that sexual assault?

Which ones are that IED attack?

I don't know.

You don't know.

But can we go through and develop a process to help work through?

And that's what we've been doing, developing the tools where we use what we've learned in the lab, not with a deep brain stimulating electrode as I did before, but now switching and saying, is there any other way we can trigger a brief burst, not of one neurotransmitter, but of a bunch of neurotransmitters,

And one way we came upon is this way of using an electrode placed on the vagus nerve to trick the brain into thinking you're having a heart attack.

We only activate a few cells.

It's a very tiny current.

But normally your brain receives a signal saying, my heart beat, my heart beat, my heart beat, my heart beat, my lungs expanded, my lungs expanded, my lungs expanded.

And we say, oh, they didn't do that.

Turns out that sends a powerful subconscious, you're not aware of it when it happens, but a very transient brief,

arousal signal.

If you've got sleep apnea, it'll wake you up.

If you're not breathing, someone says, hey, wait, you're not breathing.

We should wake you up.