Eric Kandel
Appearances
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
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
Many, many pictures in real time. I'll show you a very nice example of this.
Radiolab
How to Cure What Ails You
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
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
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
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
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
Just right. It's not going to be interesting 20 years from now. It'll be obvious.