Optogenetics: Illuminating the Path toward Causal Neuroscience

The Warren Alpert Foundation Prize honors Edward Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Gero Miesenböck for the development of optogenetics as a way to control the activity of specific circuits in the nervous system, to determine their function and ultimately to control them to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Featured Speakers:

Edward Boyden, PhD, Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, Leader of the Synthetic Neurobiology Group in the MIT Media Lab, Investigator at McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Peter Hegemann, PhD, Hertie Professor of Neuroscience and head of experimental biophysics at Humboldt University of Berlin

Gero Miesenböck, FRS, Waynflete Professor of Physiology and founding director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University of Oxford

Charlotte Arlt, PhD, Research fellow in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School

Kimberly Reinhold, PhD, Research fellow in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School

[ltannahi]

I also woke up and this video was rolling. INTERESTING so many of us have been drawn into this collective!

[taylor]

I fell asleep to a completely different video from a smallish creator and then I go to use my laptop this morning and this video was the last one playing... We must all be bonded for life in this very specific club lmao

[minibuns]

Good morning, everyone. No joke, I just woke up and this was playing. It has nothing to do with what I was watching when I fell asleep. It is 0530 PM EST - Friday, February 9, 2024. I am going to go back to sleep because I still have an hour before I have to get ready for work. Have a great day everyone. If we are all on a similar journey in life - I hope and pray that we all have the greatest happiness and love in our lives.

[jackelynkeil]

Im a nursing student last night I was watching videos on Mental health, fell asleep and woke up to this. I didn't find it weird but reading the

[hoppomahx]

Like everyone else in the comments, I woke up to this in the morning. I’d only slept a few hours as I went to bed very late, but I had the most vivid, detailed and disturbing dream seemingly right before I woke to the words on this recording. I feel like one of the exclusive members of a mysterious phenomenon. We all have something in common, but we don’t know why.

[genesiskravitz]

Woke up to this and ended up watching the whole lecture.

[abbeyroad]

Everyone saying they woke up to this but I use these types of videos to fall asleep😭 it’s so calming what

[josephrolph]

I see alot of comments about waking up to this lecture, i woke up this morning on the couch at 4am and this was playing... could be just that its a long lecture and might be 7-8 videos deep into out algorthmns, but it find it quite facinating, especially with the subject.

[anonymouss]

I accidentally fell asleep while using my computer. I was listening to ASMR. I have no clue how I ended up in this lecture. Woke up in the middle of the night, to this.

[centrifugedestroyer]

I'm also one of the people who randomly woke up to this, but this actually somewhat my field so it was a very positive surprise.

[miroslavmus]

I wake up to this sh about three out of four times and the fact that there are other people who share the same experience disturbs me on an inner level, not that there is anything wrong with it, but I get the damn chills every time. Makes me question life, the universe and everything to such a level, that even 42 can't explain.

[nelliehyder]

Woke up this morning and The Diary of A DEO was on. I watched it and a Neuroscientist was expounding on the topic of relieving stress. It was so interesting and me not being anything close to anything she was talking about, was left in awe of what I did understand. The next topic that rolled down was: Optogenetics: Illuminating the Path toward Causal Neuroscience. This is so interesting. I love learning so I left it rolling. Thanks for the information.

[ArabellaYT]

Woke up to this, yeah I’m pretty much certified in the subject now 😎

[YesterdaysDeadTodayOnlyExists]

The fact that I’m not the only one who woke up to this particular Harvard lecture let’s us all know we are in a simulation and we slipped to the sleep brain we need to use this information against them

[TheTruthBarrier]

Fell asleep listening to a video about family (how to heal) and woke to this. Are we seriously a club?

[renzoasuncion]

I just woke up to this and holy I didn’t think That there would be others that also woke up to this.
Welp I guess I’m part of the sleeping neuroscience club now.

[karenjohnson]

Fascinating! Don’t really understand why I woke up to this ? I listened to the the entire program as it caught my interest recently a gal shared her niece had just had a device placed in brain to help control seizures and so far it’s helping.

[LaTetraO]

Looking through my history to see if the path to this video is a logical one before I go back to sleep.

[janasunnarborg]

It's still working. 4 years later. I fell asleep to completely different content and woke up to this video.

[overdosarN]

Can we use Optoginetics to help understand why everyone is waking up to this video?