Home | News | A Light Switch for Neurons: Ed Boyden at TED2011 A Light Switch for Neurons: Ed Boyden at TED2011 Anne Trafton | March 3, 2011May 24, 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email In this talk presented at the 2011 TED conference, Ed Boyden describes a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Tackling the MIT campus’s top energy consumers, building by building Scientists discover how mutations in a language gene produce speech deficits PhD student Wei-Chen Wang is moved to help people heal See all news