Neuroscience · Neuroimaging & Methods
A topic within Neuroimaging & Methods, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Karl Deisseroth
Introduces the logic and practical toolkit of optogenetics to a general scientific readership, explaining how light-gated ion channels let researchers control genetically defined neurons.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Boyden et al.
Shows that expressing a single microbial opsin gene in neurons allows their firing to be switched on with millisecond precision by light, founding optogenetics as a circuit-manipulation tool.
link checked 17 Sept 2026