> “If you could pinpoint a mechanism which is underlying the subjective evaluation of reward and cost, and use a modern technique that could manipulate it, eith

> “If you could pinpoint a mechanism which is underlying the subjective evaluation of reward and cost, and use a modern technique that could manipulate it, either psychiatrically or with biofeedback, patients may be able to activate their circuits correctly,” Friedman says. In my experience there tends to be someone, somewhere, who figured this out a long time ago and is doing some action that manipulates this mechanism, but because it's cloaked in archaic or (at least quasi) religious language it will be dismissed and we'll have to put up with years of scientists fumbling around to recreate it. Mindfulness meditation is probably the latest example. NIH isn't something that only affects programmers.