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Kafui Dzirasa

A Ghanaian-American physician-scientist studying how electrical patterns across the brain shape emotion and mental illness.

Physician-scientist Kafui Dzirasa speaking at the National Institutes of Health
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Dr Kafui Dzirasa combines medical training, engineering and neuroscience to investigate the brain circuits involved in psychiatric conditions. His laboratory uses advanced recording and computational techniques to understand how networks of brain cells coordinate behaviour.

The larger promise is more precise mental-health treatment. By connecting measurable circuit activity to symptoms, his work seeks paths beyond broad diagnostic labels toward therapies better matched to the biology of individual patients.

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