Neuroscience is hopeless.

And, of course, neuroscience,

Knowledge, therefore, emerges from developmental experience.

There is evidence from neuroscience.

Paul Bloom PhD, Cognitive and Developmental Psychology

Things that we know about neuroscience.

I actually had my own lab in the Computational Neuroscience department, and I wasn't doing any neuroscience.

This is where the neuroscience comes in,

In neuroscience now we can actually make neurons...

If you work on one neuron, that's neuroscience.

It emerges from our understanding of basic neuroscience.

From all those developmental interactions that I've showed you before.

One is called RELN it's involved in early developmental cues.

So this is a session on frontiers in neuroscience.

So when I started in neuroscience 11 years ago,

There's a new field in brain science, social neuroscience.

You have data, and data in neuroscience is sensory input.

Perception and neuroscience we do not need to copy exactly.

Well, autism is the most strongly genetic condition of all developmental disorders.

It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

In the last 20 years, developmental science has completely overturned that picture.

I'm compiling a developmental profile. She needs more stimulation than that room.

She's on the faculty, tenure track in psychiatry, Ph.D. in neuroscience.

But nevertheless, neuroscience is turning up more and more in marketing.

If we want to advance neuroscience, we need to map the brain.

Now we know from neuroscience that compassion has some very extraordinary qualities.

I've studied a lot over the years, everything from neuroscience to somatics.

But interestingly, it's also a view increasingly being heard reinforced by neuroscience.

And evolution, therefore, prepared us for this journey with a developmental openness to experience.

So what really launched modern neuroscience was a stain called the Golgi stain.

Also, genetics and neuroscience are increasingly showing that the brain is intricately structured.

You can ask about what causes it biochemically neuroscience, serotonin, all that stuff.

And that therefore means that knowlegde is really something that emerges from those developmental interactions.

That made Alex's 20s a developmental sweet spot, and we were sitting there, blowing it.

And in neuroscience, we have to deal with many difficult questions about the brain.

They just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male.

We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

Now I discussed this with Professor Simon Baron Cohen who's the professor of developmental psychopathology at Cambridge.

Sebastian Seung's Computational Neuroscience Lab at MlT has built EyeWire, a game to map the brain.

We use it in the engineering and neuroscience sense meaning a random noise corrupting a signal.

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman.

And what's so interesting about this is that sometimes, this developmental process can lead to truly remarkable results.

Yes, people settle down later than they used to, but that didn't make Alex's 20s a developmental downtime.

This is different from a lot of the developmental work that had been done up to that point.

It is estimated that one in six children, that's one in six children, suffer from some developmental disorder.