Circuits
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We can X-ray and get a real-time pulse of a nation, real-time sense of the social reactions in the different
circuits
in the social graph being activated by content.
And now I can start talking about parallel and series
circuits.
You could do parallel and series
circuits
for kids using this.
And honestly, where we've gone through over the last 11 years, through an attempt to find ways of turning
circuits
and cells and parts and pathways of the brain on and off, both to understand the science and also to confront some of the issues that face us all as humans.
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.
If you can delete cells for a few milliseconds or seconds, you can figure out what role they play in the
circuits
in which they're embedded.
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.
What happens is is that, the front-end cells die, the photoreceptors die, and over time, all the cells and the
circuits
that are connected to them, they die too.
Now by taking the biblical epithet "abomination" and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short
circuits
the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.
Like the concrete block, the transistor allows you to build much larger, more complex circuits, one brick at a time.
So all you need to do is snap a blue to a green and very quickly you can start making larger
circuits.
And very quickly Cajal realized that neurons don't operate alone, but rather make connections with others that form
circuits
just like in a computer.
You know, when I was learning about programming, I learned by looking at other people's code, or looking at other people's
circuits
in magazines.
Now, an emerging view that you also heard about from Dr. Insel this morning, is that psychiatric disorders are actually disturbances of neural
circuits
that mediate emotion, mood and affect.
So in this way, by doing this kind of test, we can draw cause and effect relationships between the activity of specific neurons in particular
circuits
and particular behaviors, something that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do right now in humans.
Rather, it's acting to control two different functions on two different circuits, so the reason there are two things wrong with our dopamine receptor flies is that the same receptor is controlling two different functions in two different regions of the brain.
So conductive ink allows us to paint
circuits
instead of using the traditional printed circuit boards or wires.
So I am indeed a neurosurgeon, and I follow a long tradition of neurosurgery, and what I'm going to tell you about today is adjusting the dials in the
circuits
in the brain, being able to go anywhere in the brain and turning areas of the brain up or down to help our patients.
But once in a while, things don't go so well, and there's trouble in these circuits, and there are some rogue neurons that are misfiring and causing trouble, or sometimes they're underactive and they're not quite working as they should.
So what we've been able to do is to pinpoint where these disturbances are in the brain, and we've been able to intervene within these
circuits
in the brain to either turn them up or turn them down.
We realized that perhaps we could use this technology not only in
circuits
that control your movement but also
circuits
that control other things, and the next thing that we took on was
circuits
that control your mood.
So what we've decided to do is we're going to try to turbocharge the memory
circuits
in the brain.
We're going to place electrodes within the
circuits
that regulate your memory and cognitive function to see if we can turn up their activity.
So the message I want to leave you with today is that, indeed, there are several
circuits
in the brain that are malfunctioning across various disease states, whether we're talking about Parkinson's disease, depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's.
We are now learning to understand what are the circuits, what are the areas of the brain that are responsible for the clinical signs and the symptoms of those diseases.
We can now reach those
circuits.
We can introduce electrodes within those
circuits.
We can graduate the activity of those
circuits.
I've spent a lot of time studying the
circuits
in the brain that create the unique perceptual realities that we each have.
And dads and daughters are completing
circuits
in special ways.
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