enhancements, drugs, neuroscience as a soldier operating can it make a moral decision? i don't know. trying to make machines act more like people and people act more like machines somewhere in the middle is a messss. so my editor asked me, besides you who cares about this stuff? so that sent me on a rant in chapter four. so i fall into g this discussion about how arrogant we are about our technologies after the fall of the wall they were everywhere. remember shock and all the 2003 invasion? the media. by the way i love the media. i think they get it wrong and publish on the wrong things and don't focus on the important things. but i don't talk about fake media. theoc internet is an awful place. it's good and awful place for people to do bad things. i think we are deliberately ignorant. we don't try to educate ourselves and the public is just not involved in that chasm with no knowledge of the military not everybody in the military is a killer. out of sight, out of mind, leaders actually use the military as a ploy back to this education thing it was interesting i read an

one of the biggest challenges of neuroscience is understanding how sensory input is transformed into neural connections within the brain and among the most prestigious research laboratories the race is on to find the answer. at harvard university jeffrey lichtman is a pioneer in the. field of research. is trying to construct a complete mouse brain connector of unprecedented resolution to that end he commissioned the construction of the world's most powerful scanning electron microscope. this machine one millimeter thick slice of mouse brain into thirty five thousand out of thin cross-section. to cross sections of them laid end to end like the frames of. this process allows the researches to map a mouse brain fragments equivalent to the size of a grain of sand. in a one hundred thousand fold in a large amount the frames allow them to produce exact diagrams of the brain's neural wiring. for example we can see how this red neuron is connected to the green your. knowledge further it's possible to distinguish the space between both neurons this gap is called the synapse. to transmit infor

enhancements, drugs, neuroscience. is that soldier operating with free will? can it make a moral decision? i don't know. we are trying to make machines more like people, trying to make people more like machines. somewhere in the middle it is going to be a mess. my editor asked me besides you, who cares about this stuff? well, that sends me on a rant in chapter 4 and my answer was unfortunately almost nobody. a few writers like myself and others but not very many people. i go on to this discussion in chapter 4 about how arrogant we are about our technologies. after the fall of the wall we were everywhere. shock and are, remember that in 2003 invasion? that didn't work out very well. the media, by the way i love the media, don't talk about fake news. media gets it wrong. they focus on the wrong things and don't focus on the important things. the internet is an awful place for people to do bad things. we are deliberately ignorant, we don't try to educate ourselves. there is a chasm. the public is just not involved. no knowledge of the military, people ask me did

we are really in the infancy of neurosciences in some ways, and also then, you are taking a person'sn the context of their personal experience, and that requires a lot of listening and lot of detective work to try and understand what you're being told. i love that phrase "detective work", which you use in the title, because what we have here is a series of stories about patients — obviously not their real names — who were exhibiting puzzling symptoms, slightly weird symptoms. they see things or they behave in a strange way that they can't explain, and you've got to start to work out what's going on from ground zero. yeah. absolutely, and i think that's something that is wonderful about being a neurologist is that you're listening to your patients' stories, and if you can hear the symptoms properly, that will actually take you on a journey into their brains in order to try and get an anatomical understanding of what's going on. without knowing it, they're often performing a self—diagnosis. well, they are telling you what's wrong with them if you can just listen clearly enough, especia

it can be about -- if you want, there's a great field of neuroscience debating how we respond. philosophy, poetry, virtually every humane discipline you can think of it complicated in works of art. so if you do get a good solid sound, deep education in art history, then you're set for life. >> on that note, simon, david, thank you so thank you so much for joining us. >> so great to be immersed in the past as we try to navigate the future. art isn't the only way. just before we go, a reminder that my new series, sex and love around the world continues on cnn this saturday. in this week's episode, i head to a capital of ghana in west africa. ♪ >> ghana, the fastest growing economic in africa, and yet. >> you need to develop a strong faith and audacity to survive in this system. ♪ ♪ >> what happens when religion colors every aspect of love, sex and relationship? welcome. >> so many different layers of society there in ghana. sex and love around the world continues this saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern time on cnn. that is it for our program tonight. thanks for watching "amanpour" on

for stories.red there is lots of nero science -- neuroscience for this. i used to say that as a question. i do not think it is a question anymore. you and i, human beings, are wired for narratives, for stories. what do we do with kids, children, young ones? we tell them a story. some of the stories stick. i have a hard time remembering what stories i learned in elementary school. enough i could probably come up with some of them. it has got to be news stories. based on the best research. ago and weteam years , were each given two or three elementary textbooks, two or three middle school, two or three high school textbooks to examine them, read them, reviews them for how they did american history. what i remember is that the elementary texts had almost no history at all. the junior high texts by and large had some history, but disappointingly, but they had a lot about what products are grown in new england, where cranberries come from and on and on. the high school textbooks were a mixed bag. some were not bad. i was sort of pleasantly surprised. but kids

important is people are concerned about shire's two headwinds, one in heme tolling and one in neuroscience and all farm ma companies have compounds that go off patent or subject to competitive obsow len sense. if we brought these two together, the impact of those cliffs will be significantly delieu tiff and that combined with the fact that japanese pharmaceutical companies trade at higher multiples i believe create a back end equity that's attractive we would encourage shire's board to go through a full and fair process to compare all alternatives including things they can do with themselves but we are not scared of the concept of there being a transaction which has proposed in the fourth proposal would be 45% cash in the work that we've done in the last several weeks to date. at 12 times year one earnings, the deal's 35% agreeable to them looks attractive. >> reporter: nobody questions that some may wonder as to the composition, the leverage, the flowback issue of issuing all that equity would be something that would not attract the interest of a number of shareholders. >> for the traders

on crisis reporting, newshour producer nsikan akpan ventures to oaxaca, mexico to dive into the neurosciencectation, >> reporter: science writer erik vance has traveled the globe to learn how healing works, whether its western medicine or traditional healing. 6,500-feet up in the mountains of mexico's sierra mazatecas, we explored two things that sometimes unite those types of treatment: the theater of medicine and the science of placebos. >> my favorite one is if you've ever taken a pill and had like immediately felt better. as soon as you take a pill your headache just goes away. >> reporter: well, that pill actually takes 20 minutes to kick in. so what you're feeling is actually the placebo effect. >> reporter: placebos do this by unlocking the body's medicine cabinet, releasing compounds like appetite hormones or pain- relieving opioids. but in his book "suggestible you," vance explains how a placebo effect can be triggered by more than a sugar pill. here in huautla de jimenez, many experience the placebo effect before they even arrive, through collective expectations made by the city's

even grasp the trauma that happened and so what we have found over time is that this is out of neurosciencehat often writing, the act of writing, not just speaking, but literally writing a trauma can help define it, contain its and weaken its power or could this is not universally true. there are people especially people that are not used to voice a motion. sometimes it can read traumatized to write things down and i am having that personal experience of that feeling read traumatized every time i look at the paper these days because it's a hell of a time to be alive, but for most people when they transcribe their trauma comes up answers to happen. when you write it down, at first its first-person meaning high, this happen to me, i did this come i did that, i felt this the more you write it, third person starts to seep in and this is proven, these are studies of people that were asked to rewrite their trauma. it becomes she, he and the word because starts to trickle in or in relation to the consequences of and so the trauma gets a different context. you go from this happened to me too higher

i think novartis is getting into the whole idea of advanced neuroscience because they are involved withetic therapies, i'm very excited about this. stuart: absolutely wonderful thing, it's not like you take a pill or something. this is -- manipulating the genetic structure of your body. >> it's us correcting what the gene got wrong, it's correcting faulty dna. stuart: right. it's good stuff. let me digress for one second, the sergeant general wants more people to carry around the opioid antidote narcan, i think they call it and you vigorously approve of this, you think it's a good thing, don't you? >> especially because of what the overdoses are, 40,000 deaths from opioids a year now, it's because of elicit fentanyl, because what addicts are taking are more powerful than expected. heroin with fentanyl, stops breathing, it's a real proper place for the surgeon general to say, if you live with an addict, 2 million addicts in the united states, you should have the ability to -- to use this nasal spray to shove this narcan up their nose if they are breathing out of it, you can learn to iden