A Nobel Prize for Controlling the Brain With Light
00:00 — Introduction 00:41 — A Switch From Pond Scum 02:10 — What You Can Do When You Have a Remote Control for Neurons 03:51 — The First Human Applications 04:50 — Wrap Up Sources: - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 — Press Release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-release - Boyden to share prestigious brain prize — MIT News (optogenetics history): https://news.mit.edu/2013/mits-boyden-to-share-prestigious-brain-prize - Channelrhodopsin-1: A Light-Gated Proton Channel in Green Algae — Nagel et al., Science, 2002…
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