VIDEO: Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable precision. In this 18 minute video, Deisseroth gives an overview of his lab's groundbreaking research in "optogenics".

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As scientists and pharmaceutical companies continue developing drugs to treat brain diseases, there is a chance those pills will have some benefit to healthy minds.

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It is the world's first device to image brain activity at the cellular scale in freely moving mice.

Roughly the size of a dime and weighing only 1.1 grams, the miniaturized microscope developed by professor Mark Schnitzer captured the first images of firing neurons and circulating red blood cells in the brains of active mice—a feat that has never before been accomplished.

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New Stanford-led research published in the April 5, 2007, issue of Nature describes a technique to directly control brain cell activity with light. It is a novel means for experimenting with neural circuits and could eventually lead to therapies for some disorders.

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