Dr. Michael Kilgard

And many people voluntarily do it.

lose a few days, get better for months, and then come back and cycle and do it again.

So that idea is not a ringing endorsement.

The fact that you have to do it again, it's not a cure.

It wasn't pushing toward any particular thing.

I've got a number of things in my house that work kind of well, and if you give them a good whack across the top of it, it'll start up, a motor that kind of sticks.

You give it a kind of whack, but I'm not really fixing it.

I need to grease some bearing or something.

But whacking it will also work.

So I think of this as, again, date me, the Gilligan's Island thing, a coconut would fall on your head and you'd suddenly be better.

That's the level of sophistication.

But the proof of concept is it's the plasticity that's making them better.

We used to think that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors worked by increasing serotonin.

Therefore, we concluded people's serotonin was low with depression.

And yet, behold, they don't have low depression.

So in any case – And reprocessing later.

We're talking about that reflection.

I think many people after one of these experiences, they're now thinking about it in a way they weren't.

They're putting it away and we're not talking about that.

So for PTSD in particular, avoidance is a defining hallmark.