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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroethics

·July 26, 2012·2 min read

Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light

Researchers can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The findings represent a key advance for optogenetics, a state-of-the-art method for making causal connections between brain activity and behavior. Researchers say that similar light-based mind control could likely also be made to work in humans for therapeutic ends.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 25, 2012·4 min read

Chemical Makes Blind Mice See

A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of Munich and University of Washington, in Seattle, has discovered a chemical that temporarily restores some vision to blind mice, and is working on an improved compound that may someday allow people with degenerative blindness to see again.

Events Featured Genetics

·May 24, 2012·4 min read

Workshop to Examine Optogenetic Approaches for Treating Diseases Associated With Vision Loss Announced

Foundation Fighting Blindness and Mass. Eye and Ear Host June 1 Optogenetics Workshop to Fast-Track Innovative Approaches to Save and...

Featured Neuroscience

·March 23, 2012·4 min read

Researchers Show that Memories Reside in Specific Brain Cells

Simply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory. Our fond or fearful memories — that first...

Featured Neuroscience

·July 25, 2011·3 min read

Scientists Use New Technology to Show That Interrupted Sleep Impairs Memory in Mice

With the novel use of a technique that uses light to control brain cells, Stanford University researchers have shown that...

Featured Genetics Neuroethics Neuroscience

·June 30, 2011·3 min read

Scientists Use ‘Optogenetics’ to Control Reward-Seeking Behavior

The findings suggest that therapeutics targeting the path between two critical brain regions, the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, represent...

Genetics Neuroscience

·October 18, 2010·2 min read

Neurobiologists Genetically Engineer Mice to Smell Light

Neurobiologists have genetically engineered mice to smell light. This optogenetics research provides a better understanding of the neural basis of...

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