Flipping the switch on fewer than 500 neurons dramatically reduces the alcohol consumption of mice. This novel finding could lead to new targets for therapeutics.

Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain ...

He said, "I believe optogenetics can provide solutions for various diseases." Professor Deisseroth has developed new technologies for studying the brain one after another.

This work is the first demonstration that optogenetics can be used to control seizure activity in living human brain tissue, and it opens the door to new treatments for other neurological diseases ...

What is optogenetics? Optogenetics employs a harmless virus to deliver light-sensitive genes to a particular set of neurons in the brain that can then be switched on and off with pulses of light. In a ...

To turn on light in the brain, researchers need a few tools. The first one is optogenetics, an established research technique that uses light to activate or inactivate cells in the brain.

The puzzle of memory has intrigued philosophers and intellects for a very long time. Plato and Aristotle believed that memory ...

The researchers used optogenetics to conduct analysis of protein phosphorylation sites (phosphoproteomics) on neurons in the search for a reverse marker of brain activity. Primary cortical neurons ...

Optogenetics is an innovative technique that combines optics with genetic engineering in order to control the activity of neurons with light activation. It is a method of activating brain cells or ...