Huffpo has a nice article on Diesseroth’s ongoing optogenetics work. Someday we’ll play the brain like a piano.
Diesseroth had a nice 2010 article on optogenetics in Scientific American. And he has a good Google Talk from 2008 if you want more in depth on this.
I am a psychiatrist (psychopharmacology and psychotherapy) specializing in the so-called "personality disorders," particularly narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. I also work as a neuroimager at Columbia University, where I am an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. My academic focus is on the evolutionary function and neuroscience of emotion.
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