Topics Discussed in Lex Fridman Podcast #274 – Lex Fridman & Karl Deisseroth: Mental disorders, Intelligence, James Joyce, Writing, Projections, Translation, Poetry, Love, Psychiatry, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Data in cells, Optogenetics, Neuralink, Psychedelics, Depression, Talk therapy and psychoanalysis, Good Will Hunting, Darkest moments, Suicide, Autism, Schizophrenia, Why we cry, Consciousness, Mortality, Meaning of life.
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Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He is known for creating and developing the technologies of hydrogel-tissue chemistry (e.g., CLARITY, STARmap) and optogenetics, and for applying integrated optical and genetic strategies to study normal neural circuit function, as well as dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease. In 2019, Deisseroth was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Engineering for molecular and optical tools for his discovery and control of neuronal signals behind animal behavior in health and disease. He is also a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine. Find the books mentioned in Karl Deisseroth's conversation with Lex Fridman below.
Books Mentioned in this Podcast with Lex Fridman & Karl Deisseroth:
Book Title: Projections
Author: Karl Deisseroth
Book Title: Curse of the High IQ
Author: Aaron Clarey
Book Title: The Brothers Karamazov
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book Title: The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book Title: Finnegans Wake
Author: James Joyce
Book Title: The Dead
Author: James Joyce
Book Title: A Portrait of the Artists as Young Man
Author: James Joyce
Book Title: The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne