like curing epilepsy.

like we're doing with epilepsy.

One was post traumatic stress disorder.

Now, not all days were that traumatic.

Epilepsy can best be treated by responsive electrical stimulation.

We usually hear about post traumatic stress disorder.

There are drugs that treat epilepsy, but these don't always work.

Some people get stronger and happier after a traumatic event.

PTSD sufferers are unable to escape from their traumatic pasts.

It's not good enough, Holly. It's traumatic enough being dead.

Consider, for example, a condition like epilepsy, where the brain is overactive.

I had two grand mal seizures and I was diagnosed with epilepsy.

So epilepsy patients sometimes need the electrical activity in their brain monitoring.

After returning from Iraq, soldier suffers from post traumatic stress disorder,

I don't work with people in any kind of traumatic situation.

If that's the source of the epilepsy, we can attack that as well.

For example, I asked the epilepsy people what are they using for informed consent.

Here are the top five things that people with post traumatic growth say

But scientists now know that a traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely.

And these are some of the cells that might be overactive in disorders such as epilepsy.

Which is too bad because, of course, it's a very common and very traumatic experience.

Well, if we're going to do it for epilepsy, why the hell not try it for something else?

That concludes my discussion of epilepsy, which is the third invention that I want to discuss here this afternoon.

Epilepsy is a disease in which a faulty part of the brain starts working spontaneously for no apparent reason.

It seems that somehow, a traumatic event can unlock our ability to lead a life with fewer regrets.

Would you believe, 12 pages, single space, the patient has to read before they're in our trial to cure their epilepsy?

Of course it's meant to be funny, but in all seriousness, suicidal ideation is quite common with traumatic brain injuries.

The game was helping us experience what scientists call post traumatic growth, which is not something we usually hear about.

So this translates into ongoing violence, foreign interests, bribery, drugs, ethnic conflicts, bad health, shame, fear and cumulative traumatic experiences.

The diagnosis of M.E. is really in a place where something like epilepsy or multiple sclerosis was a hundred to even thirty years ago.

Now consider this post traumatic stress syndrome appears to be a reaction to stress gone very wrong, causing its victims tremendous unnecessary suffering.

It should, because the top five traits of post traumatic growth are essentially the direct opposite of the top five regrets of the dying.

The first wish is to use the epilepsy responsive neurostimulator, called RNS, for Responsive NeuroStimulator that's a brilliant acronym for the treatment of other brain disorders.

But the implications of being able to control seizures or epilepsy with light instead of drugs, and being able to target those specifically is a first step.

In other words, the mothers with post traumatic stress syndrome had passed on a vulnerability to the condition to their children while they were still in utero.

And one story I want to tell you about is how can we find targets for treating post traumatic stress disorder a form of uncontrolled anxiety and fear.

There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past.

Or better yet, is there a way to get all the benefits of post traumatic growth without the trauma, without having to hit your head in the first place?

And I woke up in a head injury rehab ward, and I had been withdrawn from college, and I learned that my IQ had dropped by two standard deviations, which was very traumatic.

Traumatized people also easily lose control symptoms are hyper arousal and memory flashbacks so people are in a constant fear that those horrible feelings of that traumatic event might come back unexpectedly, suddenly, and they cannot control it.

Form a company to develop a neuro pacemaker for epilepsy, as well as other diseases of the brain, because all diseases of the brain are a result of some electrical malfunction in it, that causes many, if not all, of brain disorders.

There are four kinds of strength, or resilience, that contribute to post traumatic growth, and there are scientifically validated activities that you can do every day to build up these four kinds of resilience, and you don't need a trauma to do it.

In the babies of those women who developed post traumatic stress syndrome, or PTSD, following their ordeal, researchers discovered a biological marker of susceptibility to PTSD an effect that was most pronounced in infants whose mothers experienced the catastrophe in their third trimester.

Now already in a case of the brain disorders that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, we don't have an in depth understanding of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in those illnesses.

So, my work in the True Body Project if I see a senior citizen, who is struggling to feel happy, who has suffered post traumatic stress disorder, or a girl who is a survivor sex trafficking, or a teen who is struggling to rewrite how she feels in her own body,