A new paper in Oxford Open Neuroscience, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that optogenetics, suggested as a promising treatment for many psychological and neurological conditions, may ...

Researchers have devised a way to achieve long-term changes in neuron activity. With their new strategy, they can use light exposure to change the electrical capacitance of the neurons' membranes, ...

A team lights a path forward for improved treatment of conditions including addiction and epilepsy and chronic pain. In a new article, they report on a wireless transcranial optogenetic simulation ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The ...

Molecular signatures of infection and injury trigger the body’s primary defense: inflammation. These molecular signatures also stimulate a class of sensory neurons called nociceptors that sense pain.

Optogenetics was a revolution, it’s true. It was the CRISPR/CAS9 of a few years ago. It forced mild mannered scientists everywhere to bacchanal parties. The 2010 Nature Method of the year allowed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New technology like optogenetics, which uses the application of light to genetically modify target cells, offers ...

The study in mice, published in Neuron, is relevant to humans as the basic mechanisms of memory formation are very similar across mammals. By selectively manipulating brain activity at specific times ...

Watson and Crick, Schrödinger and Einstein all made theoretical breakthroughs that have changed the world’s understanding of science. Today big, game-changing ideas are less common. New and improved ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Nearly 20 years ago, scientists developed ways to stimulate or silence neurons by shining light on them. This technique, known as optogenetics, allows researchers to discover the ...