Dr. Sergiu Pașcă

I am not talking about discovering or developing a therapeutic for any of these individuals.

We are talking about the profound forms of autism, the ones that actually the parents are still struggling to even communicate about, right?

The kids who may never go to school, may never be able to actually live on their own.

The same is the case for many of these patients with severe dystonias.

So I think it's very important because I think in the case of autism, partly because it's being talked about and again, because it is a spectrum, it's also part of the identity, right, of a part of the population.

And that's absolutely fine.

I think perhaps like at one point having different terms.

It may be useful because we were talking before about terminology, which is so important.

So perhaps that would be useful at one point to define the border between profound forms of autism and forms of autism that are not really a disease.

And we've been teaching so many people around the world now, like more than 350 labs around the world to just implement this technology very systematically through courses that we do at Stanford.

So I feel we've amplified so much.

So there's always something happening.

But I've never seen it, honestly, at work.

I mean, I think it's so fun to think about the human brain.

It's certainly fascinating to think about the biology of these conditions.

And of course, for me, training as a physician,

I think seeing firsthand some of the devastating effects of psychiatric disorders was a very strong, you know, motivation to actually go into neuroscience.

I do more than 12, 15,000 for sure.

Yeah.

And I walk all the time.