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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...