This! This the type of work that makes me so optimistic that the next 3 decades of brain research will be more impactful that the last for understanding/treating mental conditions. We finally have the right measurement tools & analyses (eg for emotion). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt3971 Treating the brain as a complex dynamical system where emotions are persistent, emergent properties is key to understanding emotion. This is what we'll look back on in 30 years and point to as the genius of this era.

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And this type of cross-species comparative work enables exactly the types of causal perturbation experiments that some are grumbling haven't been done yet. Like this ⬇️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07915-x

Day 24 (breakthrough): The BrainGate brain computer interface enables individuals with extreme paralysis to move. It's the product of decades of scientific discoveries & engineering. For one man, he imagines writing letters and it's transformed into text. It's remarkable! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03506-2 More on BrainGate:

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A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses