Controlling the brain with optogenics

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Karl Deisseroth,  Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, 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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