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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a God Neuron?
There's no good answer, but you're providing the tools that give us hope to find the answer one day. And we have early clues. We did an experiment with optogenetics where we provided this abnormal rhythm to a particular part of the mouse brain. And we saw this separation of detection of a stimulus and caring about it. So that's like stimulating something about the mouse brain that affects these neurons that give the conception of self.
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