Dr. Karl Deisseroth: Understanding & Healing the Mind

Dr. Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is a clinical psychiatrist and scientist who directs a bioengineering research laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine. His work aims to understand and develop treatments for disorders of the mind such as depression, attention deficit disorders (ADHD & ADD), autism, schizophrenia, anxiety, eating disorders, borderline personality and obsessive-compulsive disorder. We discuss his experience treating his patients and his laboratory’s mission to find and develop cures for mental disease and tools for probing how the brain works. 
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Introduction  
00:03:47 Sponsors: AG1, LMNT & Waking Up
00:07:41 Using Language to Understand the Mind  
00:12:19 Blood Tests For Mental Disease  
00:13:38 The Largest Challenges Facing Treatment of Mental Health  
00:20:21 Predicting Depression & Suicide  
00:22:47 Drugs That Work for Brain Illness  
00:27:01 What Would A Cure For the Broken Mind Look Like?  
00:32:23 Channelopsins: Tools For Understanding & Treating the Mind  
00:39:10 Curing Blindness with Channelopsins  
00:41:58 Why Karl Became a Scientist  
00:47:10 Vagus Nerve In Depression  
00:54:12 Challenges To Overcome for Treating Mental Illness with Channelopsins  
00:58:34 Using the Dialogue with Patients to Guide Treatment  
01:00:52 How Our Eyes Reveal Our Mental Health  
01:06:04 Controlling Structures Deep In the Brain  
01:08:23 The Most Effective Drugs Often Have the Most Side Effects  
01:09:50 Do Psychiatrists Take the Drugs They Prescribe  
01:14:15 Moving From Experimental Tools To Novel Treatments  
01:16:00 Brain-Machine Interfaces & Neuralink  
01:19:30 ADHD & Dr. Deisseroth’s Approach To Focusing His Mind  
01:26:36 How Dr. Deisseroth Balances A Career In Medicine, Science & Family  
01:35:41 New Ways of Exploring Brains: CLARITY  
01:38:49 What Is Special About the Human Brain?  
01:46:03 Psychedelics  
01:54:12 MDMA  
01:57:15 Dr. Deisseroth’s New Book “Projections: A Story of Emotions”  
01:59:42 Connecting with Dr. Deisseroth on Twitter  
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