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They will reduce the treatment gap for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders.

It's one of the cells that seems to be atrophied in disorders like schizophrenia.

And these are some of the cells that might be overactive in disorders such as epilepsy.

Now, in the 20th century, there was some hope that was generated through the development of pharmaceuticals for treating brain disorders.

And while many drugs have been developed that can alleviate symptoms of brain disorders, practically none of them can be considered to be cured.

These have indeed been able to bring some kind of remedy to people with certain kinds of disorders.

Then we can try to do things in vivo that have only been done to date in a dish, like high-throughput screening throughout the entire brain for the signals that can cause certain things to happen or that could be good clinical targets for treating brain disorders.

We're developing tools and sharing them freely with hundreds of groups all over the world for them to study and try to treat different disorders.

Our hope is that by figuring out brain circuits at a level of abstraction that lets us repair them and engineer them, we can take some of these intractable disorders I mentioned earlier, practically none of which are cured, and in the 21st century, make them history.

One of the neurological conditions that can be treated with focused ultrasound are movement disorders, like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

So the same strategy that we used to find the code for the retina we can also use to find the code for other areas, for example, the auditory system and the motor system, so for treating deafness and for motor disorders.

So I'm very passionate about this research and I really want to continue it and expand it to more disorders besides asthma, more respiratory disorders, as well as more pollutants.

Wednesday night is eating disorders.

In the United States, probably the most astonishing statistic is a 600 percent increase in autism and autistic spectrum disorders and other learning disabilities.

Shame is highly, highly correlated with addiction, depression, violence, aggression, bullying, suicide, eating disorders.

Well, autism is the most strongly genetic condition of all developmental disorders.

Now, sadly, neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease gradually destroy this extraordinary ability, as it is doing to my friend Jan Stripling, who was a virtuoso ballet dancer in his time.

But frustratingly, with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, there are no biomarkers, so there's no simple blood test that you can do, and the best that we have is like this 20-minute neurologist test.

The story starts: I was at a friend's house, and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual, which is the manual of mental disorders.

And it lists currently 374 mental disorders.

So I was leafing through it, wondering if I had any mental disorders, and it turns out I've got 12. (Laughter) I've got generalized anxiety disorder, which is a given.

And you know, this is a country that over-diagnoses certain mental disorders hugely.

And across the world, every 20 minutes, one new person is diagnosed with autism, and although it's one of the fastest-growing developmental disorders in the world, there is no known cause or cure.

So blindness is a big problem, and a lot of these blind disorders come from inherited diseases, so we want to try and better understand which mutations in the gene cause the disease.

As we heard from Dr. Insel this morning, psychiatric disorders like autism, depression and schizophrenia take a terrible toll on human suffering.

Now, part of the reason for this is that we have an oversimplified and increasingly outmoded view of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders.

This view is conditioned by the fact that many of the drugs that are prescribed to treat these disorders, like Prozac, act by globally changing brain chemistry, as if the brain were indeed a bag of chemical soup.

Now, an emerging view that you also heard about from Dr. Insel this morning, is that psychiatric disorders are actually disturbances of neural circuits that mediate emotion, mood and affect.

But we know much less about the circuit basis of psychiatric disorders because of the overwhelming dominance of this chemical imbalance hypothesis.

Now, it's not that chemicals are not important in psychiatric disorders.

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