Dr. Michael Kilgard

But the evidence experience from colleagues I trust is this is really working.

We've tried everything else.

And I don't know because the studies have not been done.

We don't have the answer what the exact probabilities are unlike the other studies.

We've done lots of randomized control trials with cognitive behavioral therapy.

But the idea is you get a benefit.

But it's just suggestive.

This is still a pretty crude technology and practitioners of it, they're more than happy to acknowledge that.

They want the seizure to not be too bad because it's too bad.

So they have ways to start the seizure and then stop the seizure.

They've optimized it so it's more effective now than it was in the Jack Nicholson days.

It's not painful anymore because people are anesthetized when it happens.

You don't need to be awake.

You don't need to experience it.

That wasn't an active ingredient.

What was an active ingredient is the seizure, which is a storm of brain, sometimes called a brain attack, where neurons are firing synchronously all over the brain and releasing massive amounts of neurotransmitters at the same time.

That's generally something you don't want.

If you had a choice of a seizure or not to have a seizure, you would choose not to have a seizure.

If you had a child, you'd rather not have a seizure.

But if someone is really stuck in a severe state and they're at risk harming themselves, it's been determined by powers that be that it's better to try this.