New research reveals how the brain rapidly adapts to sensory changes using a feedback loop between the olfactory cortex and the olfactory bulb.

Female mice demonstrated similar shifts under the ... while inhibition blocked the stress-induced preference shift. In females, optogenetic stimulation of VTA-NAc projections with rapid, burst ...

“It was a pretty remarkable experiment,” says Deisseroth. Using optogenetics, the researchers turned off cells in the posterior insular cortex and the prefrontal cortex in some mice while stimulating ...

Anxiety disorders, characterized by an excessive apprehension about real or perceived threats and dysfunctional behaviors ...

As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Susumu Tonegawa at MIT, Liu and graduate student Steve Ramirez used optogenetic techniques to identify the neurons involved in encoding fear memories in ...

This discovery was made using optogenetic technology, which facilitates the manipulation of biological phenomena using light. The findings are published in Development. Designated areas (white ...

Immediately after these lessons, as the mice slept, the authors used optogenetics to reduce bursts of neuronal firing that have been linked to replay. They did so during both the small-pupil and ...

Enter FlyPi: a low-cost and modular open-source alternative to commercially available options for optogenetic experimentation. One of the things that larval zebrafish, fruit flies, and roundworms ...

A new technique, still in the experimental stage, achieves this by introducing light into the brains of mice using a very ... For example, the so-called optogenetic technique make it possible ...