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Research Statement
Mental and neurological disorders are the world's leading cause of disability. Drug treatments have often been inadequate and have contributed to an alarming addiction situation. We need to be able to diagnose and treat the neural source of brain disorders. Toward that goal, our lab develops:
Minimally invasive methods that enable to modulate individual neural circuits transiently and systematicall—one by one—until identifying the set that leads to a relief of a given sign or symptom.
Methods for durable treatment of the involved circuit activity and connectivity.
This work will enable us to move beyond prescribing systemic drugs by addressing the source of a problem in each individual.
At the basic science level, the ability to modulate (and in particular, suppress) neural circuits noninvasively and thereby systematically will lead to new, causal studies of how individual brain circuits are involved in specific behaviors in humans.
