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Kay Tye improvises to understand our inner lives

October 04, 2017
… reported in 2016 in  Cell . Using a technique called optogenetics, developed in Karl Deisseroth’s lab at Stanford, … thought we were going to go.” In another experiment using optogenetics, Tye and colleagues  pitted the sensations of … loneliness recognition awards Emotions Anxiety Disorders Optogenetics …

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 … Circuits Motivation and Behavior Neural Signal Processing Optogenetics Brain Imaging …

Memory and its meaning

October 07, 2019
… become deft at editing genes and inserting new ones. In “optogenetics,” for example, genetic insertions enable neurons … Learning and Memory Neural Circuits Genetic Engineering Optogenetics Sleep Visual System Neural Signal Processing …

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit necessary for memory formation

April 06, 2017
… They can also artificially reactivate memories by using optogenetics, a technique that allows them to turn target … hippocampus prefrontal cortex amygdala Learning and Memory Optogenetics Memory Systems …

A delicate balance between positive and negative emotion

October 17, 2016
… cells. Feeling off balance The researchers then used optogenetics, a technique that allows them to selectively … positive and negative emotion amygdala hippocampus valence Optogenetics …

Neuroscientists find memory cells that help us interpret new situations

April 06, 2020

Fellowship enables study of how the brain makes memories of places

July 01, 2024
… in a virtual maze. To do so, Fan and her colleagues used “optogenetics,” a technology that genetically engineers … cells. Fan’s use of multiple simultaneous optical methods (optogenetics, GEVIs and an endocannabinoid reporter) is new … Learning and Memory Memory Systems Neural Circuits Optogenetics Neural Plasticity Neuromodulators …

New Picower Investigator advances optical methods to study learning and memory

January 02, 2024
… light using a somewhat more established technology called optogenetics. The experiments revealed how the sense of … inhibition in the brain’s outermost layer. Because both optogenetics and GEVIs require shining light onto target … Karl Deisseroth, a psychiatrist/engineer and pioneer of optogenetics. There Fan hoped to study something that had …

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit that encodes timing of events

January 11, 2021
… events hippocampus CA1 Learning and Memory Memory Systems Optogenetics Neural Circuits …

How flashing lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s, improve memory and more

February 28, 2018
… hippocampus neurodegeneration gamma oscillations microglia Optogenetics …

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