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MLA Full: "This Is How an Engineer Sees the Brain." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 19 August 2026, www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DD6u8nK4wE.
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Chicago Full: SciShow, "This Is How an Engineer Sees the Brain.", August 19, 2026, YouTube, 22:09,
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0DD6u8nK4wE.
Most of the medicines we have for treating mental illness adjust the level of brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine. But that doesn't work for everyone. So Duke researcher Kafui Dzirasa, who trained as an engineer, is looking at the problem from a totally different perspective: electrical patterns across the entire brain.

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