1. Promises
1.1. Comments
1.1.1. Helps us understand neurodivergent people better
1.1.2. Media coverage can help explain advances in the understanding of mental health in a way that people can justify to family and employers
1.1.3. It's helped us with medication and treatment
1.1.3.1. this medicine is meant to treat one thing and hammer it home, but it can cause other bodily and mental issues
1.2. Ideas
1.2.1. Seen as something we can optimize, but it can lead to
1.3. Responses
1.3.1. Helps to justify mental illness
1.3.1.1. "There look, we can see it right there"
1.3.1.2. chemical imbalances that you can see
2. Perils
2.1. Comments
2.1.1. It can lead to over-modernization -> Humans being treated by computer AI systems
2.1.2. Lie detection programs based on brain psychology (a matter of national security at times) is not always accurate
2.1.3. Doesn't speak about the problems of who it is used on the most, who has the easiest access to it
2.1.4. Focusing too much on the neurological side leaves out room for considering other factors and contexts that could be causing these results
2.1.4.1. Biopsychosocial model
2.2. People get too excited when they find out something new and think that this new discovery will be entirely new
2.3. Ideas
2.3.1. There are some Promises that can also show up as Perils
2.3.2. Colours on brain scans don't actually mean anything most of the time. They're assigned colours just to differentiate areas.
2.3.2.1. Could these colours be a method of emotional manipulation?
2.4. Responses
2.4.1. Social implications
2.4.2. Media coverage can work against those with mental health disorders
2.4.3. People can be too trusting - neuroscience has very little to tell us about human behaviour.