Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University)

[TheGreatDeciever55]

Ironic--- because judging a person so harshly is a grotesque form of arrogance

[happinesson]

“Breakthrough of the Decade”VICTORIOUS research! This will help a lot of people suffering from neuroscience and neuropsychiatric disease.

[thegreeensky]

very awesome topic.. so interesting...

[adelle0001]

nice one! the video is very informative thanks

[potpie921]

thank you for sharing!

[thebigfootme]

this is super! love it!

[agapitoflores001]

This is superb. Very intellectual..

[ChristinaTrin]

Either airgear is a novice troll, or (s)he sadly only has the capacity to look at the moving picture on the screen and read the title and formulate an opinion worthy of a retarded paranoid schizophrenic... I'm going with the first option.

[79hyperwave]

Well, I turned my television off.

[robbin137]

I have-my brainlight a long time ago an d i can still tell you the way it is developing

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[Mwindarou]

lol. i don't think people understand that the gene for channelrhodopsin along with cell specific promoter to drive its expression has to be delivered into whatever neurons someone may be interested in stimulating, on top of requiring surgical implant of fiber-optics to deliver the light in order to control/modify behavior. so relax. it's not like some guy can shine some light at you and make you do things. this isn't something out of a Philip k. dick novel (remember the beam of pink light?)

[RafaKBLudo]

Thank you for the video.

[thechitowncubs]

3:49

[TheJoe1902]

No stanford does not rule they just have managed to milk more money from feds for attracting brighter studensts such as Karl to make them "appear" as if they know better. Here is an exception, like Harvard they have a majority of 80% average-too flat out retarded students. You have to sift through tons of debris to get a few diamonds.

[airgear100]

WATS WIT DA MASON HAND SIGNS AND TALKN BOUT CONTROLN MY BRAIN

F DAT SHT

I WANT FREEDOM

WE ARE CHANGE

[AFunyun]

Nice presentation, you can tell he knows what he's talking about. Stanford rules

[powersinsurance1]

Very interesting concept. Who would have thought you can control certain actions with light.

[returnoftheramble3]

you have to learn things and force yourself to learn random things. We're all reactions to our 4s. Please don't believe in the 'switch.' Um, no. Soup of fucking. Yeah, thoughts are scary because the brain is a tangled metaphor. The word banana has a thousand meanings. If you're brain separated you from you, you would understand :(

[jobirgheidi]

Very interesting and so very well presented. Thank you.

[TheNataliaRR]

They dont understand TIME and with LIE you cant fly.

[TheNataliaRR]

Every person can make own invisible quantum machine alive, Otti Dracul will reset your data with new young generation for example and its fashion quantum machine.

[MikeM8891]

this is the same way the aliens are controlling me. can you imagine what we are to those rats we do tests on. we are the aliens butt probing them. if only the rats could make their own tin foil hats like i can to protect myself.

[hanalei169]

this is scary as hell!!!

[UCreateChange]

Amazing idea! I'm putting this video on my blog!

[CuervoBlack06]

"Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there--watching and waiting."

Too soon for a Flowers for Algernon reference?

[Paddy142]

Does anybody know how he gets the different photo-sensitive genes into the different neurons?

[sarbruis]

They use adeno-associated virus to introduce the genes into the cells (a virus commonly used in gene therapy). Specific promoters are attached to the genes so that they are only expressed in a certain cell type.

[VogelsongProductions]

His initial goal I agree with, treating depression, but it does have great ethical issues. It is a newly discovered power which can be used for the well-being of others or to be taken advantage of. Very interesting though.

[xavieramont]

can't wait to get my exocortical implants

[alleyghost]

The future of ''education''?

[skb0rzn]

What if its used right now through our TV's to control us as slaves. I mean really, we know we are beign screwed and no one is standing up, we are being driven to death and no one is burning down wall st.?? We are being controled somehow. Maybe this is how.

[Unclevertitle]

@skb0rzn

Currently, this kind of control requires a specialized surgical implant, so chances are that you don't have one. The control in terms of TV that you're referring to is more a result of the media (with the tendency of people to accept what they encounter as truth) and advertising (with inherrent emotional messages and insinuations of a person's personal worth in relation to a product).

A surgical implant like this could one day be used for advertising that's impossible to ignore.

[bboymarcel]

be aware of it...!

[bboymarcel]

Karl Deisseroth...this doctor should be crossed up and judged by god....!

psychiatrists are the worst psycho criminals in the world...!

[vaginitischlamydia]

Excellent video and an amazing technique.

Although optogenetics could serve as a possible treatment option, it seems the potential for exploratory analysis of the brain is even more great. Imagine the potential to invoke neuronal change with such specificity - target only dopaminergic neurons in the basal ganglia, etc., etc. Great work.

[djtoosh]

waaaay too few bioengineers do any work in cognition. kudos to karl disseroth, he's amazing

[christielynn04]

Cool! Can this help with physical chronic pain too??

[NexusARC]

I need help.

[seanotube85]

Very interesting stuff!

I wonder if you could make some really effective anti-psychotic medication from this sort of research too.

[MaxwellSDSU]

Very interesting research. Im curious how they managed to splice a gene into a neuron thats in the hypothalamusif thats in fact what they did.

The link to his labs webpage (wherein theres a list of his recent publications) is in the side-bar. Some of the journals he publishes in requires a subscription, but anyone with access to a university computer should be able to look most of them up for free.

[lightspreader]

poor little mouse

[lightmobile]

Wait a second. So all we have to do is insert pond algae genes into all the relevant brain cells? Is that easy?

[nastassja08]

nice! so let's make some mice do terrorist acts like carry some nerve gas to flush them out of deep cells or caves.

[cuntscab555]

optogenetics sounds lame. call it optocephology

[skarun1988]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm that's good work... How abt using them for maniacs??????? LOL

[joeinfinitus]

If you build a fully secure device that can handle the signal emanations to certain brain regions than by all means do so. If the device was insecure though, what could happen if there was some sort of signal corruption during an important brain function? As a person who suffers from depression, I would love to apply a truly functioning technology like this into my treatment, but wouldn't feel safe doing so, unless I was assured that the electronic devices were fully reliable and trustworthy.

[powerone1]

joeinfinitus...I find your post interesting, because you are probably talking drugs that can cause all kinds of side effects, yet you want this technology to 100% safe and effective before you would use it.

[joeinfinitus]

I can see where you are coming from on this. And yes, I would want it to be 100% safe before I would be ready to use it. That would be the sensible approach. Of course being on drugs that have side effects and work, are better than suffering in the first place. But assuming this form of treatment could be made 100% safe, wouldn't that be the better option?

[joeinfinitus]

The science behind this is absolutely incredible, but is lacking in one important thing. As soon as you connect an electronic device to a fiber-optic cable to modulate and demodulate the activity in neurons, you are exposing it to an entirely new problem that the brain was never meant to see, and that is computer hackers.

[DanJC989]

Hahaha maybe if they give the implants wifi. Not sure that hackers are going to be a huge problem.

[igotyoubeat]

wow its amazing how science has grown and its also scary when you see a rat being steered with light

[subztree]

matrix science is the future

[lostm0ments]

Then you see what I see.

It's funny you mention that, because that is what I'm going into Neuroscience to research. Replication of all 5 senses in a virtual environment. And to my suprise, this is already being done to the extent that we have achieved sight, audio, relative touch, and even smell.

Hopefully we will have made even more progress before I get a chance to work on the research with their teams.

Search: The Cocoon Virtual Reality

[Roq999]

matrix science coupled with computer science...

[PenguinJin]

There's a difference between an observer experiencing light as color, and an observer knowing that there is light of varying frequency being detected. How would we know if a virtual observer were actually seeing color?

[MrDiaz70]

@subztree

Totally agree with you :))

[projectmagnet]

When are you all in science going to try out torsion fields, and scalar cancelling coils. Vibration. True conscious energy.

[rajus0]

its a kl area of science but in my opinion from a ethical point of view it might not all be gravy

[whiff1962]

Deep brain stimulation, as a treatment for depression, is fraught with considerable risk to the patient, and does not obviate the need for continued maintenance of psychiatric poisons prescribed before the procedure. It is, however, a rather costly procedure, and surgeons(notably vascular surgeons, given the major arteries and veins exposed during the surgery) love to get paid for this procedure.

[whiff1962]

Hum, paradigmatic shift, from a neuro-chemical, to an electrical mode of explaining (mis)behaviour. Hypnosis alters consciousness, so, should this be proof that there is curative affect to hypnosis? Is this researcher actually a neurologist, or just a shrink?

[whiff1962]

The existing problem is the continued maintenance of the idea of psychiatric labeling as disease.

[drdeee5]

yeah.. in 2020 there will prob be human robots

[QuantumAnomaly]

Sure. Why not? Consciousness is the fabric of the universe. If we can build a machine capable of hosting high-level consciousness (a body) then consciousness will occupy it.

The problem is we are thinking of AI in terms of 1's and 0's when it would better serve us to think in terms of vibratory signatures and frequencies. Remember: the brain's functionality is based on waves.

[PenguinJin]

How is it certain that consciousness is the ground of the external world? Our perception is written on consciousness, at most certain, but not necessarily the world we're symbolizing. How is it that a brain's functionality is based on waves? It seems that neurons are on or off--digital. Do you mean at the quantum level?

[RamzGT]

excellent question I've pondered many times as well!

[geezdude20]

This is the future.

[nycfemale2008]

fascinating stuff.

[lmlyon]

People and work like this gives me hope for future. Thank-you for sharing this with us.

[tsatsa12]

really intresting ,nice speech

[lostm0ments]

WOW!!!!!!

[1hALo93]

lol and maybe the beginning of mind control :P

[lvildos]

television and edicts do that through your peers

[1hALo93]

haha true

[pokeshark]

great lecture

[lvildos]

Amazing technology. If the speaker is reading, at 15:56 a reference was made to ecological diversity, the proper term is ecosystem diversity

[bigsky780]

Come on Karl lets not get testy

[persianiranforever]

OMG,Im really worry about my brain neuron. I dont like these courses !!!!

[eigilmus]

scary shit

[gallardo228]

My Name is Stanford

[brygidawalczak]

good luck with your researches and thank you for the beautiful presentation!

[tisawtahw1]

Hmm fast forward fifty years and people will be triggering their endorphines this way. LightHeads they will be called or maybe Flashers... wait we allready have those.

[furociousdee]

I always knew there was a reason I didn't go to Stanford ;) genius, LOVE this research!!

[AineWolberg]

Light work and justice for all psychiatric patients!!! no more electroshocks!!! tell me what to drink and what color to look at :) im ready for the future thanks for this investigation hope the best for you and your team!

[lyrialzander]

Absolutely Fascinating Prof. Deisseroth, thank you for sharing.

Narcolepsy has always intrigued me, you should add it to the search tags for this video.

Very enlightening.