Saturday, September 7, 2013

No Change in Neuromedicine

In the Times right now, this headline and leader:

Which could have been written any time during my life, and probably has. Many times. Reading the article, I am no more impressed by this round of claims for brain science than by any of the previous versions. Yes, our knowledge of the brain continues to improve, slowly, and we have some drugs that seem to help some people, some of the time. But that's about it.

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