"In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting-out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain--and it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that Deisseroth's innovations promise to be especially helpful."
— Colapinto, John (b. 1958)
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May 18, 2015
Metaphor
"In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting-out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain--and it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that Deisseroth's innovations promise to be especially helpful."
Metaphor in Context
Increasingly, neuroscientists believe that the key to understanding how the brain works lies in its over-all neural circuitry, and the way that widely separated brain regions communicate through the long-range projection of nerve fibres. In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting-out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain--and it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that Deisseroth's innovations promise to be especially helpful.
(p. 83)
(p. 83)
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John Colapinto, "Lighting the Brain: Karl Deisseroth and the Optogenetics Breakthrough," The New Yorker (May 18, 2015). <Link to www.newyorker.com>
Date of Entry
06/13/2015
