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The brain doesn't feel pain.
Not only can you study what these cells do, what their power is in computing in the brain, you can also use this to try to figure out if we could jazz up the activity of these cells if indeed, they're atrophied.
One of the questions that we've confronted is: What signals in the brain mediate the sensation of reward?
Because if you could find those, those would be some of the signals that could drive learning; the brain will do more of what got that reward.
And we'll make different cells in the brain sensitive to light.
These are the dopamine neurons, in some of the pleasure centers in the brain.
Then we can try to do things in vivo that have only been done to date in a dish, like high-throughput screening throughout the entire brain for the signals that can cause certain things to happen or that could be good clinical targets for treating brain disorders.
Now the question is: What targets in the brain can we find that allow us to overcome this fear?
But we activate different targets in the brain, using that optical fiber array I showed on the previous slide, in order to try and figure out which targets can cause the brain to overcome that memory of fear.
And now you can see, just 10 minutes into the experiment, that we've equipped the brain, by photoactivating this area, to overcome the expression of this fear memory.
Over the last couple years, we've gone back to the tree of life, because we wanted to find ways to turn circuits in the brain off.
Consider, for example, a condition like epilepsy, where the brain is overactive.
Now, if drugs fail in epileptic treatment, one of the strategies is to remove part of the brain, but that's irreversible, and there could be side effects.
What if we could just turn off that brain for the brief amount of time until the seizure dies away, and cause the brain to be restored to its initial state, like a dynamical system that's being coaxed down into a stable state?
I want to close on one story, which we think is another possibility, which is that maybe these molecules, if you can do ultraprecise control, can be used in the brain itself to make a new kind of prosthetic, an optical prosthetic.
Most of us don't have funguses or algae in our brains, so what will our brain do if we put that in?
So far, we haven't seen overt reactions of any severity to these molecules or to the illumination of the brain with light.
The signals that are detected by the photoreceptors are transformed via various computations until finally, the layer of cells at the bottom, the ganglion cells, relay the information to the brain, where we see that as perception.
Our hope is that by figuring out brain circuits at a level of abstraction that lets us repair them and engineer them, we can take some of these intractable disorders I mentioned earlier, practically none of which are cured, and in the 21st century, make them history.
The second thing that I think I heard you say is you can now control the brain in two colors, like an on-off switch.
Our hope is to eventually build brain coprocessors that work with the brain so we can augment functions in people with disabilities.
We're hoping to use this as a way of testing what neural codes can drive certain behaviors and certain thoughts and certain feelings and use that to understand more about the brain.
Imagine I were to stroke your child's arm with this feather, and their brain [was] telling them that they were feeling this hot torch.
It's a little brain worm.
It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle.
Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all-terrain vehicle.
The ant's brain has been hijacked by a parasite that infects the brain, inducing suicidal behavior.
Now, am I saying that a sizable minority of the world's population has had their brain hijacked by parasitic ideas?
The idea of replicating ideas; ideas that replicate by passing from brain to brain.
This is a representation of your brain, and your brain can be broken into two parts.
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