"People are using this to turn on and off all sorts of parts of the brain," said bioengineer Edward Boyden, head of the synthetic neurobiology group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who helped invent the technique with neuro-psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University in 2005. "You can play the brain like a piano."
"People will think we're a bunch of out-of-control cross dressing fascists"