Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University)

I need help.

Very interesting stuff!

I wonder if you could make some really effective anti-psychotic medication from this sort of research too.

Very interesting research. Im curious how they managed to splice a gene into a neuron thats in the hypothalamusif thats in fact what they did.

The link to his labs webpage (wherein theres a list of his recent publications) is in the side-bar. Some of the journals he publishes in requires a subscription, but anyone with access to a university computer should be able to look most of them up for free.

Hahaha maybe if they give the implants wifi. Not sure that hackers are going to be a huge problem.

poor little mouse

excellent question I've pondered many times as well!

Wait a second. So all we have to do is insert pond algae genes into all the relevant brain cells?  Is that easy?

nice! so let's make some mice do terrorist acts like carry some nerve gas to flush them out of deep cells or caves.

optogenetics sounds lame. call it optocephology