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.

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, ...

Before optogenetics emerged, researchers studying neural signaling relied largely on voltage- and calcium-sensitive dyes, as well as probes designed to detect changes in pH. Combined with the use of ...

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 ...

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 ...

An irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, leads to inefficient pumping of blood by the heart, which then prevents blood and ...

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 ...