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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

April 28, 2025
… but also actually causes them. In one set, they turned to optogenetics, a technology that enables scientists to …

Kay Tye Receives the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

November 15, 2016

Mriganka Sur elected to the 2022 class of the AIMBE College of Fellows

February 28, 2022

Five Picower students honored as ‘Graduate Women of Excellence’

May 01, 2019

Scientists identify brain circuit that drives pleasure-inducing behavior

March 22, 2017
… they express and their anatomical location. They then used optogenetics, a technique that allowed them to control neuron …

Too sick to socialize: How the brain and immune system promote staying in bed

November 25, 2025
… regions that have a known role in social behavior. Using optogenetics, a technology that engineers cells to become …

When Alzheimer’s degrades cells that cross hemispheres, visual memory suffers

August 19, 2022
… controllable with flashes of light (a technology called “optogenetics”). When they shined the light on the …

Grant to help scientists test whether brain region is a key locus of learning

July 23, 2021
… of LC-NE neurons, they’ll also take them over using optogenetics (in which neurons can be controlled with light), …

As novel sights become familiar, different brain rhythms, neurons take over

June 08, 2021
… the lab still needs to perform more experiments. Using optogenetics, in which they can engineer neurons to be …

Neurotechnology provides real-time readouts of where rats think they are

December 04, 2018
… and behavior.” By combining these capabilities with optogenetics – a technology that makes neurons controllable …

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