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BRAIN grant will fund new tools to study astrocytes

August 27, 2019

… for astrocytes a technology Boyden co-invented called optogenetics. Optogenetics changes cells to become responsive to flashes of visible light. Widely applied in neurons, optogenetics alters genes that regulate whether neurons …

With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward

January 15, 2020

Arousal Control: Reanimation and Sleep

… be controlled with flashes of light (a technology called “optogenetics”). They used that access to artificially … the arousal of portions of the cortex. They showed using optogenetics that activating the thalamic reticular nucleus … mice undergoing general anesthesia. The researchers used optogenetics, in which cells can be engineered to be …

When a task adds more steps, this circuit helps you notice

August 05, 2022

… the motor cortex to adjust cortex motor cortex behavior optogenetics … to be suppressed by flashes of light (a technique called “optogenetics”) they could precisely control when the ACC went …

Engrams: mapping and manipulating memories

… to be controlled with pulses of light, a technique called “optogenetics,” they could then stimulate those cells – and … cortex. In 2017 the Tonegawa lab applied memory engram, optogenetics and neural circuit identifying technologies to …

Ed Boyden

… as well as to repair these systems. Neural Circuits Optogenetics optogenetics neurotechnology circuits oscillations deep brain …

FLARE

… control, for instance, then coupling FLARE with optogenetics would give researchers the chance to figure out …

Scientists identify neurons devoted to social memory

September 29, 2016

… or stimulate these memories by using a technique known as optogenetics to manipulate the cells that carry these memory … The researchers set out to test this hypothesis using optogenetics: By engineering neurons of the ventral CA1 to … researchers were able to “re-awaken” these memories using optogenetics. In one experiment, when the test mouse first …

Emotions and Memory

… controllable with flashes of light (a technology called “optogenetics”). Then, when they reactivated the engram of …

MIT neuroscientists build case for new theory of memory formation

October 23, 2017

… could be artificially retrieved using a technique known as optogenetics. The researchers have dubbed these memory cells …