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 3Q: Robert Desimone on the federal BRAIN Initiative Rob Matheson, MIT News Office April 23, 2013 ... to contribute to the BRAIN Initiative, as many of our researchers are already leaders in developing new technologies for neuroscience. One example is optogenetics, a method for controlling brain activity ... Ed Boyden shares Gabbay Award with optogenetics researchers Julie Pryor April 22, 2013 ... and Medicine. The researchers are being honored for their contributions to the discovery and applications of optogenetics, a technology that allows scientists to control the brain’s activity by genetically ... Boyden to share prestigious brain prize March 11, 2013 Ed Boyden honored for his work on optogenetics; will share 1 million Euro prize with five other researchers.Ed Boyden, a faculty member in the MIT Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, ... Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office January 8, 2013 ... as optical antennae to improve a technique known as optogenetics. This technique, developed in 2005 (and pioneered by MIT’s Ed Boyden, the Benesse Career Development Associate Professor of Research in ... In search of better antidepressants Anne Trafton, MIT News Office December 12, 2012 ... impair their movements, often experience depression before the complete onset of Parkinson’s symptoms. Dopamine control For this study, the researchers used a relatively new technology known as optogenetics ... How the brain controls our habits Anne Trafton, MIT News Office October 29, 2012 ... to develop. Using optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to inhibit specific cells with light, the researchers turned off IL cortex activity for several seconds as the rats approached the point ... Calcium reveals connections between neurons Anne Trafton, MIT News Office October 17, 2012 ... knew what cell types are abnormal, we could find ways to correct abnormal firing patterns.” The researchers also plan to combine their imaging technology with optogenetics, which enables them to use light ... Mehrdad Jazayeri to join BCS, McGovern Institute faculty Julie Pryor October 2, 2012 ... work combines electrophysiology with optogenetics in order to analyze neural function in the primate brain. Jazayeri will pursue two long-term research themes at MIT. One line of research will examine ... Researchers engineer light-activated skeletal muscle Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office August 30, 2012 ... would likely bog down a small robot. Instead, Asada and his colleagues looked to a relatively new field called optogenetics, invented in 2005 by MIT’s Ed Boyden and Karl Deisseroth from Stanford University, ... Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cells Anne Trafton, MIT News Office May 7, 2012 ... — such as in optogenetics, the use of light to perturb targeted neural circuits and determine the causal role that neurons play in brain functions. Neuroscience is one of the few areas of biology in which ... Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prize Charles Jennings April 26, 2012 ... were later awarded Nobel Prizes. Boyden, Zhang and Deisseroth share the 2012 Perl prize for developing a technology known as "optogenetics," in which neurons are genetically engineered to respond to ... Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells Cathryn Delude, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory March 22, 2012 ... neurons in the brain? In a new MIT study, researchers used optogenetics to show that memories really do reside in very specific brain cells, and that simply activating a tiny fraction of brain cells can ... Boyden named inaugural recipient of IET’s Harvey Engineering Research Prize January 6, 2012 Honored for his pioneering research contributions to the field of optogenetics, in which neurons are genetically modified to respond to light.Ed Boyden of the MIT Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for ... Of minds and machines Larry Hardesty and Anne Trafton, MIT News Office May 9, 2011 ... through electrical recording or imaging. He also mentioned the budding field of optogenetics, which allows researchers to control neurons with light. These tools don’t make discoveries on their own, ... Seeing the light Anne Trafton, MIT News Office April 20, 2011 ... called optogenetics, co-invented by MIT's Ed Boyden, who is an author of a paper on the work appearing in the April 19 online edition of the journal Molecular Therapy. Boyden says the study, led by Alan ... Illuminating the brain Anne Trafton, MIT News Office January 28, 2011 ... author of a paper describing the new approach in the Dec. 15 online edition of the Journal of Neurophysiology. Light control The new technique, called opto-fMRI, builds on optogenetics — the genetic ... Silencing the brain with light Anne Trafton, MIT News Office January 7, 2010 ... the brain. The new channels offer a “much more practical” way to use optogenetics for animal studies such as testing which neurons are involved in different visual tasks, he says. To achieve brain silencing ... McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program funds three new projects Julie Pryor September 18, 2009 ... has been a pioneer in the development of optogenetics, a technology in which light-sensitive ion channels are expressed in target neurons, allowing their activity to be controlled by light. The approach ...
Making waves in the brain
Deborah Halber, Picower Institute April 26, 2009 ... of a newly developed technology known as optogenetics, which combines genetic engineering with light to manipulate the activity of individual nerve cells. The research helps explain how the brain produces ...
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