Feast or forage: Study finds circuit that helps a brain decide November 22, 2021 … activated with a flash of light (a technique called optogenetics). When she flashed the light, it caused the worm …
Cortex over reflex: Study traces circuits where executive control overcomes instinct November 30, 2020
Livestreaming the Brain March 15, 2024 … mice and doing so in combination with another technology, optogenetics, which enables neural activity to be controlled …
‘Skyrocketing’ research by investing in young researchers June 23, 2020 … correlated neural activity. He is also learning how to use optogenetics, a technology that makes neurons controllable … Professor Nancy Kopell, and is learning how to use optogenetics to manipulate them with MIT Professor Bob …
Kay Tye Receives the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award November 15, 2016 … pharmacology, microscopy, behavioral training, and optogenetics to finely tease out the networks that …
Memory and its meaning October 07, 2019 … become deft at editing genes and inserting new ones. In “optogenetics,” for example, genetic insertions enable neurons …
Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences May 01, 2019 … complex brain processes. He pioneered the development of optogenetics, a powerful method that enables neuronal …
Study shows how a single neuron’s parallel outputs can coordinate many aspects of behavior September 27, 2023 … behaviors, they manipulated the neuron’s activity using optogenetics, a technique in which cells are genetically …
Evidence early, but emerging, that gamma rhythm stimulation can treat neurological disorders December 20, 2023