Triplett and his colleagues assessed the potential of their holographic optogenetics technique in a series of tests and their results were very promising. In fact, they found that their approach could ...

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a point where it could reshape how neurological disorders are treated.

How does the brain link memory to motivation? A new study reveals that dorsal and ventral hippocampal pathways converge on the same neurons to drive reward-seeking behavior.