18.Rare diseases

Now, that inability to properly pump not just the cell, but the whole heart that is heart failure.

One of the neurological conditions that can be treated with focused ultrasound are movement disorders,

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

Why does this matter?

These are years that we could get.

Some of you may remember that.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's made a mistake.

This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

40 percent of our coronary artery disease patients in our communities receive incomplete or inappropriate care.

Now, the manifestation of this depends on where in the brain these neurons are.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

If you ask people to return to darkness, the days of lung cancer, breast cancer, motor neurone disease, they'll simply say no.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Now already in a case of the brain disorders that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, we don't have an in depth understanding of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in those illnesses.

She suffers from a chronic illness.

But when it doesn't, we have to do something about that, therapeutically.

The death of Little Nell and Cordelia and all that sort of stuff just doesn't happen anymore.

Let's flip the table yet again

Really?

Is it the fear that two people connected in a social network might develop a blood disorder that interferes with clotting?

Now to bring home the point of how close it is the relationship between the grid of neurons and the topographical arrangement of the activity of the neurons and our mental experience

So dystonia is a disorder affecting children.

Anders Breivik is merely evil.

Most of this is in developing countries, and the majority is in Africa.

He was taken off the Dutch ship in Martinique and died a week later of consumption. Oh...

90 of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness at the time of their death.

For example, if I do that, and reach and grab an apple, a motor command neuron in the front of my brain will fire.

So the way we develop drugs now is by testing promising compounds on