PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Neuroscientists are eagerly, but not always successfully, looking for proof that optogenetics – a celebrated technique that uses pulses of visible light to ...

University of Rochester researchers have demonstrated a noninvasive method using BL-OG, or bioluminescent optogenetics, that harnesses light to activate neurons in the brain. The ability to regulate ...

Heidelberg researchers develop computer vision technique to analyze rehabilitation process Methods from optogenetics and machine learning should help improve treatment options for stroke patients.

Despite being a revolutionary technology, optogenetics faces translational challenges, but integrating various advanced technologies has the potential to overcome these obstacles and drive its ...

Their proposed mapping strategies, outlined in two Nature Neuroscience papers, combine holographic optogenetics, a method to selectively and precisely stimulate or silence specific neuron populations, ...

They look like storm clouds that could fit on the head of a pin: Organoids are three-dimensional cell cultures that play a key role in medical and clinical research. This is thanks to their ability to ...

To understand and manipulate components of the brain, “the central challenge in neuroscience is the difficulty of controlling just one type of neuron at a time!” observed Francis Crick prophetically ...

A minimally invasive optogenetic technique that does not require brain implants successfully manipulated the activity of neurons in mice and monkeys, researchers report April 29th in the journal ...

Systemic viral delivery of a gene encoding for a light-sensitive red-shifted ion channel enables non-invasive neuronal stimulation deep in the brain of rodents. Deisseroth and co-authors targeted the ...

A new state-of-the-art brain imaging technique could, someday, make fMRI neuroimaging technology and current optogenetic methods seem antiquated. This week, a team of Caltech researchers from the ...

It is almost ten years since the scientific journal Science called optogenetics the "breakthrough of the decade". Put simply, the technique makes it possible to control the electrical activity of ...

A minimally invasive optogenetic technique that does not require brain implants successfully manipulated the activity of neurons in mice and monkeys, researchers report. The researchers first ...