Karl Deisseroth

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The Father of Optogenetics

Leader of Deisseroth Lab

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Karl Deisseroth on Wikipedia

 

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Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University)

Uploaded on Jan 22, 2009

Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable precision. In this short talk, Deisseroth gives an thoughtful and awe-inspiring overview of his Stanford University lab's groundbreaking research in "optogenetics".

 

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Karl Deisseroth Optogenetics Controlling the Brain with Light

Published on Aug 8, 2012

Karl Deisseroth, PhD, MD, is a bioengineer and a psychiatrist at Stanford who has developed a breakthrough research tool that is allowing scientists studying the brain an unprecedented degree of control over brain cells by making the cells sensitive to different colors of light. Using fiber optics, researchers can turn parts of the brain on and off to study how the brain works.