He also wrote of his summer job as a camp counselor with underprivileged children, where Holmes said he encountered kids with ADHD and schizophrenia.

“Those kids were heavily medicated but this did not solve their problems, only create new ones,” he wrote. “The medication changed them from highly energetic creative kids to lax beings who slept through the activities. I wanted to help them but couldn’t. This is where neuroscience research becomes invaluable.”