# Nobel Prize awarded for revealing the brain’s inner workings

https://mins.news/en/video/87287

- BBC News, 2026-10-06 01:49 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaUWCtcJtK8

> US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics. Their research has helped scientists better understand how the brain works and how the human mind functions.

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