Dr. White studied physics and mathematics at the University of Oregon (Honors College) as an undergraduate, but a long-standing fascination with the brain and how it generates things like thoughts, feelings, and behavior took him to graduate school in neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. After pursuing postdoctoral research at Yale University, Dr. White came to NIMH where he started the Section on Neural Function (AKA, the White Lab) in 2002. His laboratory’s interest in the circuit-level organization of the fruit fly brain is guided by the desire to understand how a simple “mind” makes sense of its world, makes decisions, and takes meaningful action.
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areas of the nervous system in order to change neural function. reporter: so in complete laymen s terms it is like a brain pacemaker. result. reporter: the results have been incredible. when it works, you get to see miracles. reporter: from this to this. and on this valentine s day, amy and andrew have already gotten their wish. side by side and hand in hand. now andrew still has the occasional tick, but he says 95% of his tourette s symptoms are gone. that is absolutely remarkable. any side effects to this? well, it is brain surgery so about 2% of people will experience a brain hemorrhage. but andrew said he wasn t even concerned about that, he was so desperate for treatment. so, we know they ll be holding hands this valentine s day. they will. how else are they planning to celebrate? amy says they want to go to pizza hut. they want to go to a restaurant where people don t stare at them. she said she used to go from table to table to explain what was wrong wi