Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces

<p class="MsoNormal">Get <a href= "https://www.92ny.org/event/conversations-with-tyler-david-brooks">tickets</a> to the CWT live show at 92NY with David Brooks!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Theodore Schwartz stands at the pinnacle of neurosurgical expertise. With over 500 published articles, 200 pieces of commentary, and 5 patents to his name—effectively producing a scholarly work every two weeks for three decades—Schwartz spent most of his career at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he pioneered new minimally-invasive surgical techniques and led the Epilepsy Research Laboratory, among many (many) other things. His recent book  <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Matters-Biography-Brain-Surgery/dp/0593474104"> <em>Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery</em></a> offers readers an insider's view of one of medicine's most demanding specialties.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tyler and Ted discuss how the training for a neurosurgeon could be shortened, the institutional factors preventing AI from ...