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Optogenetics.org | Lab Course Offerings
Optogenetics is an emerging field combining optics and genetics to probe
neural circuits within intact mammals and other animals at the high speeds
(millisecond-timescale) needed to understand brain information processing.
Optogenetics includes 1) the development of genetic targeting strategies
such as cell-specific promoters to deliver the light-sensitive probes to
selected populations of neurons in the brain of living animals (e.g. worms,
fruit flies, mice), and 2) hardware (e.g. integrated fiberoptic and
solid-state optical tools) to allow specific cell types, even deep within
the brain, to be controlled in freely behaving animals including mammals.
This new field of optogenetics now has allowed temporally-precise
understanding of how specific brain cell types important in neuropsychiatric
disease function within intact neural circuits in vivo.
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