The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So, what are the pieces that are going to be required to cure autism, cure Parkinson's, cure schizophrenia? I would imagine there are several elements and 'beens here', understanding the natural biology, understanding what the activity patterns are, how to modify those, maybe you could just tell us what you think, what is the Bento Box of the perfect cure?
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Yeah, I think the first thing we need is understanding what is the element in the brain that's analogous to the pumping heart. When we think about the symptoms of depression, that's maybe we think about motivation and dopamine neurons. And so then, that turns our attention as neuroscientists we think, OK, let's think about the parts of the brain that are involved in dealing with merging complex data streams that are very high in bit rate, that need to be fused together into a unitary concept. And that starts to guide us and maybe we can-- and we know other animals are social in their own way, and we can study those animals. And so that's how I think about it. There's hope for the future, thinking about the symptoms as an engineer might and trying to identify the circuits that are likely working to make this typical behavior happen. And that will help us understand how it becomes atypical.