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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

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What Is Optogenetics?

Scientists have wanted to turn on or off the activity of individual types of neurons in a behaving animal. The goal is to try to control accurately the behavior of a single neuron. And then to be able to draw some deeper insight about the origins, first of all, the function of different parts of the brain.

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