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From the Ted Talk by Sam Rodriques: What we'll learn about the brain in the next century

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OK, I want to bring you back now to the year 2017. Some of this may sound satirical or even far fetched. And some of it is. I mean, I can't actually see into the future. I don't actually know if we're going to be drilling hundreds or thousands of microscopic holes in our heads in 30 years. But what I can tell you is that we're not going to make any progress towards understanding the human brain or huamn diseases until we figure out how to get at the electrical activity of neruons in healthy humans. And almost no one is working on figuring out how to do that today. That is the future of nrocceisnuee. And I think it's time for neuroscientists to put down the mouse brain and to dedicate the thought and investment necessary to uenasntrdd the human brain and human disease.

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OK, I want to bring you back now to the year 2017. Some of this may sound satirical or even far fetched. And some of it is. I mean, I can't actually see into the future. I don't actually know if we're going to be drilling hundreds or thousands of microscopic holes in our heads in 30 years. But what I can tell you is that we're not going to make any progress towards understanding the human brain or _____ diseases until we figure out how to get at the electrical activity of _______ in healthy humans. And almost no one is working on figuring out how to do that today. That is the future of ____________. And I think it's time for neuroscientists to put down the mouse brain and to dedicate the thought and investment necessary to __________ the human brain and human disease.

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  1. understand
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  3. neuroscience
  4. neurons

Original Text

OK, I want to bring you back now to the year 2017. Some of this may sound satirical or even far fetched. And some of it is. I mean, I can't actually see into the future. I don't actually know if we're going to be drilling hundreds or thousands of microscopic holes in our heads in 30 years. But what I can tell you is that we're not going to make any progress towards understanding the human brain or human diseases until we figure out how to get at the electrical activity of neurons in healthy humans. And almost no one is working on figuring out how to do that today. That is the future of neuroscience. And I think it's time for neuroscientists to put down the mouse brain and to dedicate the thought and investment necessary to understand the human brain and human disease.

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