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you might be able to look at brain activity and say, "This person's going to be a good poker player," or, "This person's socially naive," and we might also be able to study things like development of adolescent brains once we have an idea of where this circuitry exists.
I'm saving you some brain activity, because you don't need to use your hair detector cells.
The right brain schematic is the uninformed person, and the left is the informed.
That is, it looks as if the uninformed brain activity is happening first, and then it's followed by activity in the informed brain.
That is, the informed brain seems to be deciding, "We're probably not going to make a deal here."
And then later there's activity in the uninformed brain.
So how humans and chimpanzees behave differently might tell us a lot about brain evolution.
His thought was, maybe they've preserved brain activities and they practice them in development that are really, really important to them to negotiate status and to win, which is something like strategic thinking during competition.
We have some preliminary evidence from bargaining that early warning signs in the brain might be used to predict whether there will be a bad disagreement that costs money, and chimps are better competitors than humans, as judged by game theory.
And I imagined a doctor coming to me and saying, "Your son has terminal brain cancer, and there's nothing you can do.
And it made me think, what does this mean, if we're going to be able to start outsourcing, not just lower unimportant brain functions.
I have read that there's now actually evidence that the hippocampus, the part of our brain that handles spacial relationships, physically shrinks and atrophies in people who use tools like GPS, because we're not exercising our sense of direction anymore.
And as a result, a part of our brain that's supposed to do that kind of stuff gets smaller and dumber.
Is all of our brain going to start to shrink and atrophy like that?
But what I want to suggest to you is that both of those terms, which have been in play for a century or more, are actually now impediments to progress, that what we need conceptually to make progress here is to rethink these disorders as brain disorders.
When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.
We have just begun to try to figure out how do we take this very complex machine that does extraordinary kinds of information processing and use our own minds to understand this very complex brain that supports our own minds.
It's actually a kind of cruel trick of evolution that we simply don't have a brain that seems to be wired well enough to understand itself.
Now, already in the case of the brain disorders that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, while we don't have an in-depth understanding of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in these illnesses, we have been able to already identify some of the connectional differences, or some of the ways in which the circuitry is different for people who have these disorders.
We call this the human connectome, and you can think about the connectome sort of as the wiring diagram of the brain.
The important piece here is that as you begin to look at people who have these disorders, the one in five of us who struggle in some way, you find that there's a lot of variation in the way that the brain is wired, but there are some predictable patterns, and those patterns are risk factors for developing one of these disorders.
It's a little different than the way we think about brain disorders like Huntington's or Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease where you have a bombed-out part of your cortex.
Here we're talking about traffic jams, or sometimes detours, or sometimes problems with just the way that things are connected and the way that the brain functions.
As we think about this, probably it's better to actually go a little deeper into one particular disorder, and that would be schizophrenia, because I think that's a good case for helping to understand why thinking of this as a brain disorder matters.
They've crossed a brain threshold much earlier, that perhaps not at age 22 or 20, but even by age 15 or 16 you can begin to see the trajectory for development is quite different at the level of the brain, not at the level of behavior.
Well first because, for brain disorders, behavior is the last thing to change.
There are changes in the brain a decade or more before you see the first signs of a behavioral change.
The tools that we have now allow us to detect these brain changes much earlier, long before the symptoms emerge.
That is precisely what we do today when we decide that everybody with one of these brain disorders, brain circuit disorders, has a behavioral disorder.
It was this youth who on May 16, 1990, had broken two necks including mine, and bruised one brain and taken one life.
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