A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 10, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
...viral expression but may still be sufficient for successful stimulation.
Testing opsin expression
Regardless... of Antonello Bonci, Director of the National Institutes of Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program (NIH-NIDA...you want to use optogenetics
The most important question to consider is what exactly do you want to use...optogenetics is best used to address a specific question. Optogenetics is a tool and, just like any other...circuit of interest in promoting reward is a self-stimulation experiment wherein mouse initiated optogenetic...in a reward sensation and subsequent repeated stimulation. A spatial memory task, on the other hand, would...opsin of choice in the brain region you wish to stimulate
2) Fabrication and implantation of the optical...