Andrew Huberman· PhD
but optogenetics, that will arm us with true causal understanding.
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but optogenetics, that will arm us with true causal understanding.
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And so again, that's where optogenetics is helping us. It's helping us know, okay, this pattern of activity in these cells and these circuits, this does mean that there's a particular kind of symptom that's happening.
optogenetics in my view is is by far the most important aspect of it is it's a discovery and understanding tool this helps us because this brings so much that we didn't have before understanding what actually matters what makes things happen in the brain at the level of cells is the opportunity that optogenetics creates and and that understanding then opens the door to every kind of treatment