Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2011
- www.ted.com Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he's managed to cure mice of analogs of PTSD and certain forms of blindness. On the horizon: neural prosthetics. Session host Juan Enriquez leads a brief post-talk Q&A.
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"That might change a couple things"... perfect closing :-)
lol the directors comment at the end of "that might change a couple things" might possibly be the biggest understatement ever uttered
This should be front page news , the implications of this research can not be understated. Bravo
I like how they mention the singularity in the last minute and a half of the talk like it's nothing.
Holy crap. My jaw dropped when he talked about the eyes! That's revolutionary!
Thank you so much for doing this TED Talk. The amount of scientific progress that could be done with these type of discoveries Ed Boyden is working on is amazing.
Absolutely amazing! Any updates?? 7 years later??
5:20
He said if we could some how GENETICALY MODIFY YOUR NEURONS IN YOUR BRAIN AND EVERY OTHER ORGAN to be a light switch to turn on or off and see what happens to you... Oh wait, he forgot to phrase it in a logistical manner! Oops
Absolutely enlightening and inspiring!
Great video, thanks TED!
Excellent research, excellent opportunities. Extreme need for caution and responsibility.
This man deserves more respect.
Juan was really poking the future with a stick there at the end. Imagine if one could download memories and upload them, either into the same person or another person.
This is sweeeeetttttttttt, loved the q&a ;)
That blind mouse thing was ace.
that was an amazing talk, i think without dry humour and silly pictures the audience was disappointed
Great talk
He is so calm about potentially controlling and/or changing our entire species. I hope he is an optimist (like me) and thinks that (once the technology is in use) we will all be mature enough as a people to use this technology for good and not evil.
Has your opinion changed in the last 11 years? (Still an optimist) Just curious :D
@@lovrosucic6780 great reply! This is absolutely a control mechanism. Now if only they could find a way to deliver self-assembling nano-tech in a small delivery package that everyone has to accept. Then simply install the lights in key areas and start a pilot programming test. Perhaps they could use large black lights that appear as streetlights?
Just speculating here, of course.
@@deemanrt haha .... phones are everywhere they would work. all the cameras and 5g ... this is like the matrix but we are walking around... or are we lol.
Sounds promising! Imagine very complex brain control with this, the possibilities are endless.
14:30 14:33 wow. How would you get FDA approval right???
!for human subjects.....
Claim “Defense Services”
Claim “Classified”
Surely folks wouldn’t do something like this in the Dark....
Am I the only one who sees the potencial of this becoming a torture device? I think that this will be one of it's first applications. It's much more easier to cause pain via this device than to substract memories from the brain.
TED when are u gonna do these in HD!
Truly amazing.
Incredibly interesting!
Just amazing, this is why i study and love science.
This talk deserves a standing ovation.
for being a complete psychopath yeah
@@aflamewithintheflameIgnoring this this is a 12yo comment of mine... That is such an odd thing to reply on two conceivable levels. You think he's a complete psycho for some undisclosed reason. You think he deserves standing ovation for being said complete psycho.
Hope one day I could use technology he talking about for example to learn stuff without reading books but just uploading it into the brain. It is so exciting!
I kinda saw the 'download information into the brain' question coming. But how would you or could you teach the human brain to translate binary code, if you could?
Would it be more effective than one's own natural curiosity? Could the brain be stimulated in such a way it could send one's learning capacity into hyper-drive?
Wouldn't that over-stimulate the neurons and render them into a kind of burnout?
More questions than answers for me in this one... must have possibilities...
this guy has the most beautiful animations.
This is so scientifically awesome!
Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. Perfect marriage of the physics and neurophysiology. Unbelievable.
This is still works in progress. Ed recently put up an AMA on Reddit. Hopefully psych meds will be a thing of the past
can you please link me to the reddit AMA? I looked but can't find it!
www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4ak060/askscience_ama_series_im_ed_boyden_professor_of/
Josh L thank you Josh!
TThe Real ED Cure is ovеr 300 Yеars Old! twitter.com/a9c60516d47d92b7a/status/804602507225808896 Ed Bоydeеeen А light switch foor neurоns
@@jain355 The twitter account is gone. Where can i find the information you talked about?
Are there any sources for the information he's saying? Can someone help me get his lab journal somewhere?
Just Google Ed Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, etc.Look up their names on Google Scholar, info's all out there.
@@NateSonnenfeld ua-cam.com/video/Nb07TLkJ3Ww/v-deo.html
'That might change a couple things' XD
Interesting topic he have presented here. Imagine easy learning can be at schools if they had that kind of technology there.
Downloading memories. Bladerunner much? :D
Great talk though.
@abram730 Oops, yeah I meant Parkinsons... Soooo yeah...
this is fantastic ! I can't wait till this becomes a real product.
Phenomenal!
@Ultra4 In it's simplest form, it's essentially a domino effect. One pair of sodium & potassium ions switch positions. This leads to a change reaction down the length of the neuron. Think of sports fans doing "the wave".
Of course it's more complicated than that, but it's a common enough way of explaining the action of neural impulses.
Madness..?
THIS IS... AWESOME!!!!
Wow. Now THAT are ideas worth spreading.
Studied for 11 years…this then aired 11 years ago…and 11 years later what tech do we have using this?
@MrPlatonist they do, actually. understanding my position and my arguments is a prerequisite for being able to think about them. isnt that obvious?
but if you mean it literally, then i didnt make any such accusation, so strawman.
Ed Boyden was a *prodigy actually, he worked for MIT as a teenager.
@hmspinaforethisisspa 100% sure that you are right.... but this can really become the worst torture ever
i have always wondered... how does our body make electrical impulses ? There's no power supply, or is there ? Do we make some kind of biotic electricity ?
Very clever.
Brilliant
@SheepRCool17 What need? We already have television, radio, cheap food, fatigue, and myriad other elements to keep us doing what we're expected to do. The idea of a physical implant used for that seems clunky. I think it's truly marvelous if such things can help people afflicted in such a way that this can help.
@andy3071190 Noise that you have to endure? Oh please. There's a very obvious mute button which you can use for those few seconds, if the starting music is really THAT aggravating.
i find it depressing that this isnt front page news.
@Icecoldpoker I think there should be science on every front-page. People need to pay attention and be more involved in its advancement. We should celebrate the incremental breakthroughs and build more confidence to lead us to bigger breakthroughs (such as vaccines, technologies, discoveries...not disappointments).
This is genius.
This is awesome... And this needs more views...
Someone please give this guy a Billion dollars. We need this.
Anyone here in 2020 based off of Neuralink? Was looking at professors to start a masters in neuroengineering, came to search for Dr. Boyden @ MIT!!
If this research is successful, it will definitely change society
3:19 Migraines must be twice as common, seeing as they're listed twice :D
Finally good ted talk without stupid time consuming jokes in every sentence
13:28 14:37 14:40 part of my #ivXXX Protocol.....the Eye Tracking “Software” Portion.
M EYE 👁 Algorithms that learn to activate switches with single commands (Private Internal Voice Vibration Protocol 2cd edition).
Look at a switch/Relay and say “On”...Receiver activates!!!
All this 3 second delay....with “Hey Alexa” or “Hey Siri” going obsolete in 5 years.....
What channelRhodOpsin will you pick?
@saurabhdelft i disagree. i think that anyone i asked would realize my response addressed your argument and blew it out of the water. it shows you are just arguing from ignorance.
and theres a certain kind of irony to someone accusing someone of being a "shallow thinker" who hasnt managed to grasp all of the rudiments of the english language, wouldnt you agree?
but to answer your question, "what was the goal of black people, what was the purpose of black people in 1850 in the americas"?
Cool, AND scary.
@volound
in that sense, yeah. but the way YOU said it, it seemed otherwise. iow, probably my mistake then. =)
Man so much good can come from this...but also evil
The evolutionary developments that lead to the growth of neurology must have been amazing, producing a system that seems so far removed from basic chemical survival. I wonder if we will find out how these cell systems emerged in my lifetime.
@belliebum12 LOL! Actually, they'll probably need programmers to write the interfacing software. You'll have plenty of work. ;)
@cristoretornebiblia then dont choose the HD options then :S
woah, I read this in scientific american a couple of months ago. Cool stuff!
@shade1978x 17:12 That does change things don't it ..
@Dixavd It's more than fine, every time that mouse get a jolt of blue light it's feeling a jolt of dopamine, the brain reward system.
@andy3071190 I love that noise: bwwwwoaaaaaONGGGGGG!!! It wouldn't be a TEDTalk without it.
I admit the name "Siemens" sounds funny.
I cant wait to genetically modify my children...i wasnt even gona have kids till i saw this. now i will have super kids
They will murder their parents.
Actually with no technology, they murder their parents...
@@arie1899 Blade runner murdered his girl friend... figure it out if you can
@saurabhdelft this would be funny if it wasnt so sad.
kind of scary O.o but important also.
@vqly yes I know, I understand it perfectly and every way it works and the fact that the mouse gets pleasure from the blue light but just like irrational phobias I can't help but feel uncomfortable when I see it connected to that thing because of allt he times I have been in hospital in my life with drips and canulae and things so anything being connected to an alive awake subject - thanks for trying though.
Today I graduate with a Masters degree in Psychological Counseling... and I guess it's also the same day I change professions.
wow this is a great invention ...this is a genius
Neurology and genomics will transform humanity!
you could use this to insert new receptors types into your retinal cells, which will be sensitive to radiation sources that we can't naturally see. Such as various wavelengths of IR or UV. And the sky's the limit, we could enable until we have expanded our visual colour range 10x, 1000x, 100,000x, why stop?
I want to see X-rays, RF signals, Neutron radiation, anti-proton streams.
It's great when child prodigies actually go on to be productive.
@Driux AMEN BROTHER
@saurabhdelft to serve us
@Th3CrimsnChin so deep
@P00P0STER0US It was kinda an embarasingly naieve question, "Oh so it's on and off, it's digital?".
Juan reads too many sci-fi books, it's just another small development. It doesn't mean that in 5 years we'll all be uploading our memories, ffs what a jump Juan, these things take time and lots of further developments.
nice
@maxgunn555 How old are you?
the guy talking is extremely nervous =D
@TheFounderUtopia how is it ironic i dont understand?
@ChalleFoV3
This is not a breakthrough - This work in neurogenetics has been around for half a decade and consists of many many many smaller experiments. Slowly but surely a consensus backing an idea is formed...... it does NOT happen overnight.
I am not being pessimisitic - Just being a scientist
Interesting, but frightening in the context of a for profit monetary system.
@borderlinebuddhist well then there would be no room for the new episode of Glee's advertisement
Reprogramming the brain. Wonderfully terrifying =)
I am so sorry, mouse.
Nicola Reddwoodd
They are doing this with foster children, making them to forget thier families and where they came from to adopt them out for money. God help us.
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It is pretty creepy actually.
@madzane94 Alga is singular. Algae is plural.
@TheFounderUtopia what makes his name ironic?
@juanarruti Thats true :D
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,"
- Stephen Hawking