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Karl Deisseroth: Lighting up The Brain

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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What Is the Problem With Eye Contact?

In a patient with promatism, he described eye contact as 'overwhelmed' by all the information in his head. This was after i'd treated him for more than a year so we had a good relationship. We were able to directly ask and answer that bet question of how altered social behavior affects people with autism. And this is what makes the modern era so exciting - describing symptoms from human beings can give us deeper insight into them.

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