Abstract: Optogenetics affords new opportunities to interrogate neuronal circuits that control behavior. In primates, the usefulness of optogenetics in studying cognitive functions remains a challenge ...

More than a decade ago, scientists developed optogenetics, a method to turn cells on and off with light. The technique allows scientists to spur or suppress cells' electrical activity with just the ...

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 ...

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 ...

To survive in complex and unpredictable environments, humans and other animals need to learn to predict the consequences of ...

Researchers have uncovered new insights into how a specific group of brain cells, melanin-concentrating hormone neurons, influence food-related behaviors. Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the ...

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 ...

Using cell type-specific genetic manipulations, imaging, optogenetic stimulation, and electrophysiological recordings, we reveal that CRH-expressing EPL interneurons strongly inhibit mitral cell ...