Clear In Vivid is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program in public understanding,

which aims to enrich people's lives through a keener appreciation of our increasingly

scientific and technological world and to portray the complex humanity of scientists,

engineers, and mathematicians.

Hi, I'm Alan Alder, and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

This is the first of several episodes of Clear In Vivid sponsored by the Sloan Foundation,

and my guest couldn't be more appropriate.

He epitomizes both the intellectual and the human side of science.

He's Carl Diceroth, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has pioneered new ways of appearing

inside the brain to see how it works.

His research has revolutionized the field of neuroscience, and he was recognized in

September with the LASCAR award, the highest honor in medical research.

But Carl Diceroth doesn't confine himself to the lab.

He's a practicing psychiatrist.

He has a deep appreciation of the suffering of people with brain disorders.

Disorders he hopes his research will one day overcome.

So that's, I think, the real exciting thing.

We're now going to be able to take advantage of all this beautiful human genetics that

has found so many linkages of genes, two disorders, schizophrenia, autism, bipolar disorder,

eating disorders.

But where we can't quite make that final leap to what does it really mean, what's actually

going wrong in the brain.

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