Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals - David Anderson
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Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but
neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the
brain functions. He illuminates new research that could lead to
targeted psychiatric medications -- that work better and avoid side
effects. How's he doing it? For a start, by making a bunch of fruit
flies angry. (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.)
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