Amit Etkin, Alto Neuroscience CEO (Alto via Vimeo)
A star Stanford professor leaves his lab for a startup out to remake psychiatry
About five years ago, Amit Etkin had a breakthrough.
The Stanford neurologist, a soft-spoken demi-prodigy who became a professor while still a resident, had been obsessed for a decade with how to better define psychiatric disorders. Drugs for depression or bipolar disorder didn’t work for many patients with the conditions, and he suspected the reason was how traditional diagnoses didn’t actually get at the heart of what was going on in a patient’s brain.
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