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Engineering therapies for better mental health
MRI and fMRI Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday May 07, @09:49PM
from the MRI and fMRI dept.
There's an interesting story on Science Blog about engineering for studying mental disorders: '..."You don't hear those two words—engineering and psychiatry—put together in the same sentence very often," Deisseroth observes. By putting the two fields together in the lab, he hopes to develop treatments that are less painful, faster acting and more effective than the less precise treatments available today. "The brain, when you get down to it, is fundamentally an electrical circuit," Deisseroth says. "What we're doing here is [developing] tools, bioengineering-based tools, to observe circuit dynamics and to control circuit dynamics on a millisecond timescale." Ultimately, these efforts are meant to develop new therapies that will fine-tune the faulty circuitry underlying disease...'

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