Jeffrey Goldberg
The Diplomat
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Jeffrey Goldberg is a prominent journalist and editor known for his insights into international relations and security. This interview reveals his ability to mediate complex discussions and his deep understanding of the nuances in global leadership and diplomacy.
“You got to match that up. So it's really cool. Like, we actually know in the eye, the visual stimuli, you were talking about flashes of light, but it turns out like different cells in our eye respond differentially to different stimuli. We have some cells that fire when the lights go on. We call those very creatively on cells.”
“That in the limited clinical studies that have been done point to a positive effect of basically rehabbing, like neuro rehabbing you back. Now that, of course, is back from injured to normal, but the idea that that can also induce the same kind of plastic remodeling in our eye and brain, and particularly the eye brain connection.”
“But a very big contributor is going to be your lipids and your blood pressure because those are going to contribute to what we call microvascular disease and ultimately brain atrophy as we get older and ultimately cognitive function.”
“The retina in the back of the eye and the optic nerve that connects the retina to the brain, those are developmentally an outgrowth from the brain. They are part of the brain. They are part of the central nervous system. And we barely know about how to influence the wiring, the plasticity. Are there drugs that we can give?”
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