Ranked #1

Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure
Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure
Stefan Heller is trying to create inexpensive ear drops that can cure deafness. In this short talk, Heller describes how... Read more
22 Jan 2009
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14mins
Ranked #2

Googling the Brain on a Chip
Googling the Brain on a Chip
Kwabena Boahen is using the human brain as the blueprint for designing radically more powerful and energy-efficient comp... Read more
22 Jan 2009
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8mins
Ranked #3

Visualizing Desire
Visualizing Desire
Stanford University's Brian Knutson is unraveling the mysteries of human desire with state-of-the-art medical imaging. K... Read more
22 Jan 2009
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12mins
Ranked #4

Engineering New Treatments for Psychiatric Disease
Engineering New Treatments for Psychiatric Disease
Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of li... Read more
22 Jan 2009
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Ranked #5

Brain-Computer Interfaces
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Krishna Shenoy is creating "brain-computer interfaces" that will enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms an... Read more
22 Jan 2009
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14mins