Dr. Michael Kilgard

The doctor told me, you don't have to do all this.

We can just take your eye out and we'll stretch one muscle and we'll strengthen another one and we'll pop it back in.

And I went, I was six.

I went, I don't think so.

Still within the critical period early enough because of those experiments, those handful of animals made the ultimate sacrifice so that we now know how to treat things.

So now getting back to these counterintuitive ideas, how are you going to intervene?

We've got a kid with Down syndrome or someone with Alzheimer's and they're slipping into dementia.

What are you supposed to do?

We don't know.

If psilocybin is the answer, let's use it.

It's certainly counterintuitive.

But it may or may not be, we've got to run the experiments and find out.

So for fluoxetine it looked really promising.

There was a big initiative on stem cells, stem cells looked incredibly promising.

For stroke?

For stroke, that's right.

That's a 1300 person set as a meta-analysis.

It just didn't help or hurt, it just didn't do anything.

We wanted it to work, I wanted it to work, I'm a molecular biologist, I want the cells to go in there and do the good stuff, release the good juices.

But it's a practical matter and that's what I love about working with patients is they're just very practical.