On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]>wrote:
> Neuroscience has been completely co-opted by the drug companies. I have a > good friend who is the Charman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at > the local university, and he can't even get funding to do some research to > develop operations to save people who are dying in his own part of the > hospital!!! > Thinking about this a bit further. If I had: 1. The belief that neuroscience has been completely co-opted by the drug companies, 2. An idea for a breakthrough brain scanner, 3. Contacts in that area, I think I would reason as follows: these days drug companies face almost terminally crippling costs testing candidate drugs. Leaving aside the political component to this, a large part of the technical component is that each test gives you so little information. If we had better monitoring of what's actually going on in the brains of the subjects of a drug test, that could be worth an awful lot of money. Might the drugs industry be a possible source of funding on that basis? ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
