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Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. Nicole Rust runs the Visual Memory laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests have expanded now to include mood and feelings, as you'll hear. And she wrote this book, which contains a plethora of ideas about how we can pave a way forward in neuroscience to help treat mental and brain disorders. We talk about a small plethora of those ideas from her book. which also contains the story partially which will hear of her own journey in thinking about these things from working early on in visual neuroscience to where she is now.

0:00 - Intro 6:12 - Nicole's path 19:25 - The grand plan 25:18 - Robustness and fragility 39:15 - Mood 49:25 - Model everything! 56:26 - Epistemic iteration 1:06:50 - Can we standardize mood? 1:10:36 - Perspective neuroscience 1:20:12 - William Wimsatt 1:25:40 - Consciousness

BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds

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