Research Articles
The Remote Control in Your Brain: How Scientists Are Switching Behavior On and Off With Light
Explore how optogenetic stimulation of septal somatostatin neurons disrupts locomotory behavior and regulates hippocampus cholinergic theta oscillations.
Lighting the Brain: How Tiny Wireless Implants are Revolutionizing Neuroscience
Explore how wireless implantable LED systems are transforming neuroscience research and opening new possibilities for treating neurological disorders.
Lighting Up the Brain: How Optogenetics is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Neuropsychiatric Diseases
Explore how optogenetics is transforming our understanding of neuropsychiatric diseases like depression, addiction, and schizophrenia through precise neural circuit control.
Illuminating the Cell: The Race for Faster Optogenetic Calcium Sensors
Explore the cutting-edge engineering of faster, more sensitive optogenetic calcium sensors and the high-speed screens developed to test them.
Lighting Up the Brain: How Scientists Use Optogenetics to Decode Neural Circuits
Explore how optogenetics uses light to control specific neurons in living rodents, revolutionizing our understanding of brain circuits and neurological disorders.
Light Switch for the Brain: How Scientists Are Decoding Neural Circuits in Awake Marmosets
Explore how optogenetics is revolutionizing neuroscience by enabling precise control of neural circuits in awake marmosets, bridging the gap between rodent studies and human applications.
The Light-Switch Worm: How a Tiny Creature is Teaching Us How Brains Learn
Discover how optogenetics and C. elegans worms are revolutionizing our understanding of neural connections and learning behaviors.
Lighting Up the Brain: How Scientists Use Light to Decode Neural Circuits
Explore how optogenetics revolutionizes neuroscience by using light to control specific neurons and decode brain circuits with unprecedented precision.
The Light Switch in Your Brain: How Scientists Re-engineered Nature's Ion Channels to Silence Neurons
How scientists re-engineered channelrhodopsin into a light-gated chloride channel for precise neural inhibition in optogenetics
The Flash Response: How Glowing Flies Reveal the Secrets of Escape Behavior
Exploring how optogenetics in Drosophila reveals neural circuits behind escape behaviors through light-controlled experiments.