Switching Brain Circuits On and Off Without Surgery


The laboratory of Mikhail Shapiro, assistant professor of chemical engineering and an affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech, is showing how scientists and doctors might, in the future, use new noninvasive techniques for controlling brain circuits to help treat neurological conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

 

Read more on the Caltech Website here.