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 was a Fellow and then an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia from 2004- 2011, when I had an intellectual crisis-of-faith in which I stopped believing that neuroimaging could shed significant insight into the mystery of subjective experience. Since then I have focused on my clinical practice (at the Personality Studies Institute) and philosophical concerns.
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I am a therapist, pharmacologist, and erstwhile functional neuroimager. My clinical work focuses on integrating medication with talk therapy to treat self-disorders. I want to build an empirical metaphysics with clinical teeth.
January 29, 2012
Psychotherapy