Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders-and How We Can Change That

A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time-brain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.We do not have cures for the vast majority of brain illnesses, from Alzheimer’s to depression, and many medications we do have to treat the brain are derived from drugs produced in the 1950s-before we knew much about the brain at all.Tackling brain disorders is clearly one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today.What will it take to overcome it? Nicole Rust takes readers along on her personal journey to answer this question. Drawing on her decades of experience on the front lines of neuroscience research, Rust reflects on how far we have come in our quest to unlock the secrets of the brain and what remains to be discovered.She shows us that treating a brain disorder is more like r