Progress
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 577-581 (August 2007) | doi:10.1038/nrn2192
There is a Corrigendum (1 September 2007) associated with this article.
Circuit-breakers: optical technologies for probing neural signals and systems
Feng Zhang1, Alexander M. Aravanis1, Antoine Adamantidis2, Luis de Lecea2 & Karl Deisseroth1 About the authors
Abstract
Neuropsychiatric disorders, which arise from a combination of genetic, epigenetic and environmental influences, epitomize the challenges faced in understanding the mammalian brain. Elucidation and treatment of these diseases will benefit from understanding how specific brain cell types are interconnected and signal in neural circuits. Newly developed neuroengineering tools based on two microbial opsins, channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) and halorhodopsin (NpHR), enable the investigation of neural circuit function with cell-type-specific, temporally accurate and reversible neuromodulation. These tools could lead to the development of precise neuromodulation technologies for animal models of disease and clinical neuropsychiatry.
Author affiliations
- Feng Zhang, Alexander M. Aravanis and Karl Deisseroth are in the Department of Bioengineering, W083 Clark Center, 318 Campus Drive West, Stanford University, California, USA.
- Antoine Adamantidis and Luis de Lecea are in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford University, California, USA.
Correspondence to: Karl Deisseroth1 Email: deissero@stanford.edu
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