Dr. Michael Kilgard

You've got to get it just right.

I think there are a lot of things we've found really do work.

It's just we hope they worked as a panacea, and they don't.

They might work for 10%.

The only other therapy for stroke is called constraint-induced motor training, say MT.

And the idea is you just put a glove over the good hand and you force someone to use their bad hand.

Yeah, I love the human weasel experiment.

I think things in neuroscience are only useful if they're counterintuitive.

If they're obvious, why do we need neuroscience?

And the idea that a kid gets a big scrape over his eye, and he's three years old, and he's got a patch on his eye for three weeks.

And after the patch comes off and the eye is fine, you need to tell his mom, hey, mom, what I want you to do is put a patch on the other eye.

She will doubtless say, but that's not the eye that was hurt.

And you'll say, I know, but I have to reverse patch that.

to rebalance the eyes.

That's counterintuitive.

These guys did experiments in cats and monkeys, figured out what it was, and they now saved untold number of people's vision, at least in one of their eyes.

But it was counterintuitive to do that.

Now we don't reverse patch anymore.

We give some drops.

The eye drops make it a little bit blurry.