Sentences with phrase «technique called optogenetics»

Dan, Weber and their colleagues chose a powerful technique called optogenetics to study these REM - related GABAergic neurons in the medulla.

At nighttime between the two days, scientists introduced artificial thalamic spindles in some of the mice using a light - based technique called optogenetics.

In this web exclusive, the author offers a longer version of his December 2010 Scientific American article on how researchers can probe how the nervous system works in unprecedented detail, using a technique called optogenetics

With a technique called optogenetics, researchers can probe how the nervous system works in unprecedented detail.

To test the visual cortex's role in the plasticity of these reflexes, the researchers applied a technique called optogenetics, which uses light to turn target cells on or off.

The team used a technique called optogenetics, in which light - responsive proteins are genetically inserted into brain cells, allowing researchers to activate them with lasers to find out what they do.

Using a technique called optogenetics, the researchers blocked a brain oscillation called theta waves in the hippocampus, a brain structure involved in memory, during REM sleep.

Once they had identified the «love» circuit, the researchers devised a way to activate it themselves in female voles using a technique called optogenetics.

To prove that the sour cells indeed contribute to water detection, the team used a technique called optogenetics that allowed them to stimulate sour cells with light instead of water.

Scientists can affect an animal's behavior using a technique called optogenetics: They beam light onto genetically modified neurons, stimulating the production of dopamine and rewarding the animal for specific actions.

Using a technique called optogenetics, researchers can turn this behaviour on and off

The researchers then used a technique called optogenetics to stimulate specific neurons — the agouti - related peptide neurons (AgRP)-- known to induce food consumption in sated mice.

Using a technique called optogenetics, they were able to turn on genetically engineered brain cells in rats using a blue light delivered directly to those cells via an optic fiber.

Next, the team tested whether artificially activating the cells, using a technique called optogenetics, could drive the mice to drink water.

The work relies on a technique called optogenetics that Deisseroth's team pioneered.

To find out, Leifer and his collaborators genetically engineered the one - millimeter - long nematode worm to make particular cells in its body sensitive to light, a technique called optogenetics, developed in recent years by Stanford University psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth [see Deisseroth's «Controlling the Brain with Light,» Scientific American, November 2010].

By turning the anxiety cells off and on using a technique called optogenetics that allows scientists to control the activity of neurons using beams of light, the researchers found that the anxiety cells control anxiety behaviors.

To achieve this, Paz employed a technique called optogenetics, by which specifically tagged brain cells can be regulated with lasers or chemicals.

By turning the anxiety cells off and on using a technique called optogenetics, which allows scientists to control the activity of neurons using beams of light, the researchers demonstrated that the anxiety cells control anxiety - related avoidance behaviors.

About 10 years ago, he was able to take his work to a new level of precision in part by employing a technique called optogenetics.

Using a technique called optogenetics, they injected a virus that expresses light - sensitive proteins into the central amygdala of mice.