A book talk by:
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering
and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences;
Stanford University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Moderated by:
Venkatesh Murthy, PhD
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings—how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.