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And I could show you equivalent pictures from other disease: multiple sclerosis, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's disease, even Huntington's disease, and they would all tell a similar story.

And if the starting dying nerve cell is a motor nerve, for example, you'll get motor neuron disease.

So I'd like to give you a real-life illustration of what happens with motor neuron disease.

And I've asked John to tell us something about what were his problems that led to the initial diagnosis of motor neuron disease.

Siddharthan Chandran: I don't know if you caught all of that, but what John was telling us was that difficulty with breathing led eventually to the diagnosis of motor neuron disease.

It's very simple: You take a patient with a disease, let's say motor neuron disease, you take a skin sample, you do the pluripotent reprogramming, as I've already told you, and you generate live motor nerve cells.

And what you're looking at, and this is amazing, these are living, growing, motor nerve cells from a patient with motor neuron disease.

We're starting to have a bottom-up approach where we're identifying those genes, those proteins, those molecules, understanding how they interact together to make that neuron work, understanding how those neurons interact together to make circuits work, and understand how those circuits work to now control behavior, and understand that both in individuals with autism as well as individuals who have normal cognition.

So just as a neuron adds up its stimulation from other neurons to decide whether to fire, an ant adds up its stimulation from other ants to decide whether to forage.

Similarly, here, this neuron segmentation.

To give you an idea of what that means: that's the diameter of the smallest neuron in the human brain.

So that means we can focus through skull and brain to a neuron.

Then, we can optionally focus the light back down into the brain to stimulate a neuron or part of the brain.

I've shown here onstage our system focusing through skull and brain to the diameter of the smallest neuron.

A biological neuron fires, maybe, at 200 hertz, 200 times a second.

They're going to go down across your corpus callosum, down onto your spinal cord to your lower motor neuron out to your muscles here, and that electrical discharge is going to be picked up by these electrodes right here and we're going to be able to listen to exactly what your brain is going to be doing.

And if we slice through the hippocampus and zoom in, what you actually see here in blue is a newborn neuron in an adult mouse brain.

But it's still true that a neuron, a nerve cell, looks the same in a crayfish, a bird or you.

They're the only neuron in the body that gets replaced regularly, every four to eight weeks.

So he could see when a single neuron fires.

Regardless, whatever you're thinking about right now isn't reliant on a single neuron lodged in the corner of your brain.

The basic function of each neuron in the brain is to either excite or inhibit other neurons.

If you connect a few neurons together into a simple circuit, you can generate rhythmic patterns of activity, feedback loops that ramp up or shut down a signal, coincidence detectors, and disinhibition, where two inhibitory neurons can actually activate another neuron by removing inhibitory brakes.

Negative charge builds up and acts like a log jam, keeping the neuron from transmitting electrical signals.

In other words, building a computer which mimicked the function of every single neuron of the human brain won't necessarily create a conscious computerized brain.

The clumps disrupt transport and communication along the neuron and drive the breakdown of connections within the brain.

Now we have to ask how these neuron patterns in my brain that are associated with my memories and ideas are transmitted into your brains.

It would be so crowded, so full of structure, of wiring all connecting one neuron to another.

And at the end of the day, you have a neuron or a small group of neurons that light up, saying, "bird."

So, if you could zoom in to a neuron, and, of course, this is just our artist's rendition of it.

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