![]() Gifty’s magnetic brother, a gifted athlete, has died as a result of an opioid addiction kicked off by a doctor’s prescription of Ox圜ontin following a basketball injury. “Could this science work on the people who need it the most? Could it get a brother to set down a needle? Could it get a mother out of bed?” (44) ![]() But beyond the desire to know and map the mechanics of addiction and depression, Gifty has more personal reasons for her work. She watches to see if mice who have become addicted to Ensure (the lab nixed the cocaine) will continue to press a lever to receive it even when it may be accompanied by a painful electric shock. A pioneer in the field of optogenetics, the young Ghanaian-American researcher is using illuminated neural pathways to understand the brains of mice-particularly brains with disordered pleasure centers. ![]() The experiments that Gifty, a Stanford PhD candidate, conducts have the illusion of being about control. The Luminous World of Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent KingdomĪ Review of Transcendent Kingdom : A Novel ![]()
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