Methods library · Neurons and physiology
Optogenetics
Also called channelrhodopsin, halorhodopsin, ArchT
Switching genetically chosen neurons on or off with light through engineered opsins, with the controls that make it causal.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
36 lessons use this method.
Neuroscience
- Integration, Inhibition and Neuromodulation
- Synaptic Plasticity
- Touch and Pain
- Motor Units, Reflexes and Locomotion
- Descending Control and the Basal Ganglia
- The Cerebellum
- Autonomic Control and the Hypothalamus
- Feeding, Motivation and Reward
- Emotion and Stress
- Circadian Rhythms and Sleep
- Plasticity, Networks and Consolidation
- Attention, Executive Control and Decisions
- Recording Many Neurons: Imaging, Arrays and Atlases
- Designing a Causal Circuit Experiment
Sensory Systems
- Merkel Cells: Touch Receptors That Are Not Neurons
- Meissner and Pacinian Corpuscles: Flutter and Vibration
- Hairy Skin, Stroking and Affective Touch
- Where Touch Is First Processed: Dorsal Horn and Dorsal Column Nuclei
- Touch Over-reactivity in Autism Models
- Hot, Warm, Cool and Cold
- Spinal Circuits That Gate Pain
- Itch: A Sense of Its Own
- When Pain Persists
- Vagal Sensory Neurons: The Body Reports to the Brain
- Sensing the Gut: Enteroendocrine Cells and Nutrient Signals
- Balance: Vestibular Hair Cells and Self-Motion
- From Glomeruli to Piriform Cortex
- Taste from Tongue to Cortex
- Combining Senses and Predicting Them
- Restoring Senses: Implants, Prostheses and Optogenetic Vision