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. Mehrdad Jazayeri selected as an HHMI investigator License plates of MIT Polina Anikeeva named head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering See all news