FRIAS Kolloquium - Gregg J. Suaning

Transforming neurological treatments into cures

Success in artificial intelligence is measured by the Turing Test - if a human interrogator is unable to determine if responses are coming from a machine or another human, the machine is said to be ‘thinking’. A parallel test can be applied to treatments of neurological disorders - if a human interrogator is unable to determine whether a person is healthy, or has been healed through an applied therapy, the therapy can be considered a ‘cure’. Curing neurological disorders is a key grand challenge of our time. In this presentation we will consider technological advances which may transform neurological treatments into cures.