
Karl Deisseroth: Lighting up The Brain
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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How to Preserve the Three Dimensional Structure of a Brain
The surface of our brain, the cortex, as we call it. It's this thin sheet of cells that's like six a pancakes stapped on,. stacked on top of each other. So if you lose track of which lay or and you're losing a key part of the big picture - so by preserving the threet information 'it's fundamental to understanding otherwise' The more wrinkled your brain is, like a crape, the better. Ha, ha, ha, Ha, i'm hardened by that.
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