What Max Hodak thinks about dementia
Co-founder and chief executive of Science, a neurotechnology company whose retinal implant restores sight to blind patients; before founding it he spent five years at Neuralink.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Max Hodak has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsPeople have spent huge amounts of time and money looking for drugs to restore vision or to restore hearing or to stop Parkinson's or to to help paralyzed people move again. Understanding the like the biology and the molecular detail required to make a drug has been very difficult. Humanity just isn't that good at that, to be totally honest.
↗From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodakyoutube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording
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Their wordsIt gives you these effect sizes that you just don't really see in medicine. Like if you have a patient on on a dopamineergic drug for Parkinson's that works for some period of time, but it's a it's a relatively small effect after a little while. You turn on a deep brain stimulator and a patient goes from not being able to hold a cup of water to being able to write cursive in like 10 seconds.
↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 18th of 22 in this recording