Episode 11 has been reposted

Apparently the wrong version of this episode was posted. Somehow I left out one of Neel's comments that I really meant to use.

If you listened to the original, the added material now begins at 5:37. Its less than 2 minutes worth, but it was something special that I put in as a retirement gift to my husband, Dennis Smith, who was one of Neel Varshney's mentors when he was an undergraduate at UAB.

If you got an episode labeled #12 you have the correct episode mislabeled. Very embarrassing!

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[C. Leon McGahee, M.D.]

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Ginger's interview of Neel Varschney. He is quite a remarkable young man, about whom I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more after he has his training behind him. As someone who graduated from medical school over 50 years ago (52, to be exact), all I can say is we didn't really make medical students like that back then. And speaking as an educator, I have to congratulate Dennis on his formative role with Neel. Nothing makes a teacher prouder than having students like this.
Incidentally, I just returned from the psychiatric annual convention where there was a lot of excitement about deep brain stimulation as a possibly effective recourse for treatment-resistant depression (common enough to be known in shrink-shorthand as "TRD"). Other relatively novel approaches for the same problem (a lot of depressions don't respond to Prozac) include vagus nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain, and magnetic seizure therapy. It looks as though there will be many opportunities in the future for a marriage between psychiatry and engineering (BTW how could Willie Mays so accurately gauge those fly balls anyway?)
Leon McGahee