Talking Back to the Brain: Using Light to Uncover the Language of Neurons
Presented by Andrea Yung, Christina Welsh, and Matthias Minderer Studying the brain is like learning a foreign language – the language by which neurons communicate. Neuroscientists have made great progress by listening in on the neurons’ conversations. But, to be sure that we understand their language correctly, we have to be able to talk back to the neurons and then study their reaction. Optogenetics is … Continue reading Talking Back to the Brain: Using Light to Uncover the Language of Neurons