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Eric Kandel

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Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

142.838

Look, it's now here.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

147.537

This is happening.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

191.896

The cells are more active. They need energy, just like when you run, you have to breathe fast. And to get the energy? Your heart pumps more blood.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

216.511

Many, many pictures in real time. I'll show you a very nice example of this.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

232.0

When you image the face, this area lights up.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

239.805

That's right, that's right. If you look at a house, some other area lights up, but this area does not light up. You look at another face, this area lights up again.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

267.039

Called the amygdala. Now, very recently... A number of people have looked at the amygdala looking at faces, and it's extremely interesting.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

467.096

Why not? Every one of these illnesses ultimately must have an anatomical basis. Every one of these illnesses.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

601.248

Well, Eric took me through a little thought experiment. A mind experiment. You've developed the psychotherapy and I've developed the psychotherapy. We each claim it's the best in the world. Now we have an objective way of seeing. The machine allows you to independently of any evaluation see the outcome of treatment.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

651.906

Will you make it to see that people actually have... You know, one can't, in medicine, in all honesty, give a timeline for many of these things. Imaging methodology right now is quite sophisticated, but it's still primitive compared where it needs to be. You're picking this up in status nascendi. You've become excited as the thing is beginning to emerge. We see it for the first time on the horizon.

Radiolab

How to Cure What Ails You

678.364

Just right. It's not going to be interesting 20 years from now. It'll be obvious.