"The tools of optogenetics are allowing scientists to perform the neuroscientific equivalent of "Chopsticks" in the brains of laboratory animals--to find and control, for example, neurons that control a kind of aggression in fruit flies."
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April 21, 2014
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"The tools of optogenetics are allowing scientists to perform the neuroscientific equivalent of "Chopsticks" in the brains of laboratory animals--to find and control, for example, neurons that control a kind of aggression in fruit flies."
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"You want to be able to play the piano," said Dr. Bargmann, paraphrasing Rafael Yuste, a Columbia University neuroscientist and one of the people who proposed creating a brain activity map. The tools of optogenetics are allowing scientists to perform the neuroscientific equivalent of "Chopsticks" in the brains of laboratory animals--to find and control, for example, neurons that control a kind of aggression in fruit flies.
The hope is that scientists can work their way up to the level of Chopin--and that this tool and others like it will uncover deep mechanisms of brain function that hold true not only for flies and mice, but for the ultimate neuroscientific puzzle, the human brain.
The hope is that scientists can work their way up to the level of Chopin--and that this tool and others like it will uncover deep mechanisms of brain function that hold true not only for flies and mice, but for the ultimate neuroscientific puzzle, the human brain.
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"Brain Control in a Flash of Light" (April 21, 2014). <Link to NYTimes.com
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04/22/2014
