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

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What Is It That Binds Neurons Together?

In late 2020, we published a paper in Nature showing how this could be. We used optogenetics to drive this rhythm that ketamine and PCP cause. And we got different parts of the brain to be out of sync. When they were active, they were able to be active at the same time but not together. It's just a peculiar way it has evolved on Earth. But it's a phenomena that doesn't have anything to do with a specific biological system.

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