About Us

​Our goal is to understand complex human brain function, we view the brain not as a set of distinctly segregated parts, rather as a set of intricately interconnected regions. We use advanced electrical, acoustic, and genetic techniques to study communication dynamics across complex circuits that enables the brain to perform such incredible tasks as learning, cognition, and social behavior. We shed light on what might happen when these communication states become disordered, and ask the critical question — can we engineer therapeutic strategies to restore harmony in complex brain network communication? As the name suggests, this is the core mission of the Restorative Network Engineering & Therapeutics Laboratory, co-led by Vivek Buch, MD, a neurosurgeon with a background in network science, neural engineering, and artificial intelligence, and Karl Deisseroth, MD PhD, a psychiatrist and famed neuroscientist responsible for creating the field of optogenetics and modern cell and circuit-specific molecular modulation techniques. Together, they hope to develop novel prosthetic, molecular, and genetic strategies to restore brain communication dynamics in complex neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric disease states.