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Edward Boyden

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology
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Implosion Fabrication

Shrinking problems in 3D printing Although a range of materials can now be fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques, these u…
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8K Brain Tour: Interactive 3D visualization of terabyte-sized nanoscale brain images at 8K resolution

8K Brain Tour is a visualization system for terabyte-scale, three-dimensional (3D) microscopy images of brains.  High resolution (8K o…
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Cognitive Integration: The Nature of the Mind

While we have learned much about human behavior and neurobiology, there is arguably no field that studies the mind itself. We want to overc…
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Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNAs,…
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Understanding normal and pathological brain computations

We are providing our tools to the community, and also using them within our lab, to analyze how specific brain mechanisms (molecular, cellu…
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Tools for recording high-speed brain dynamics

The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast time…
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Prototype strategies for treating brain disorders

New technologies for recording neural activity, controlling neural activity, or building brain circuits, may be capable someday of serving …
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Optogenetics: Molecules enabling neural control by light

We have pioneered the development of fully genetically encoded reagents that, when targeted to specific cells, enable their physiology to b…
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Optogenetics: Hardware Enabling Neural Control by Light

We have developed a set of "optogenetic" reagents: fully genetically encoded reagents that, when targeted to specific …
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Principles of Controlling Neural Circuits

Neurological and psychiatric disorders afflict over one billion people worldwide, presenting annual costs exceeding $1 trillion. What are t…
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Gene Therapy Devices

Devices to facilitate gene therapy will be of increasing importance in years to come. We are developing fluidic systems to facilitate vira…
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Non-Invasive, Focal, and Portable Brain Stimulators

Despite use in treating depression, and promise in treating stroke, Parkinson's, tinnitus, and other disorders, non-invasive brain stimulat…
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Real-Time Data Mining and Perturbation

Complex data�such as neurophysiological recordings, or measures of human behavior, Internet, and general network data�are extremely difficu…
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Internomics

How do high-level cognitive functions emerge from primitive neural computations to mediate complex human behavior? We are developing preci…
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Plasma Planning

This top-secret project is aimed at improving human cognition and happiness, by empowering people to control their lives.
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Metatherapy: Customized, Adaptive Therapy Systems

Mental health therapies are complex and, to be computer-deliverable, must be customizable and adaptive. We are applying software engineeri…
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Metaoperating Systems

A successfully engineered physical system will reach a state of complexity such that it needs its own vocabulary and semantics for proper c…
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