Can Neuroscience Inform Everyday Life? The "Translation Problem"

A new paper asks why neuroscience hasn't had more "impact on our daily lives."
The article, Neuroscience and everyday life: facing the translation problem, comes from Dutch researchers Jolien C. Francken and Marc Slors. It's a thought-provoking piece, but it left me feeling that the authors are expecting too much from neuroscience. I don't think insights from neuroscience are likely to change our lives any time soon.Francken and Slors describe a disconnect between neuroscience re