Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light

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By SoulskillJul 28, 2012, 11:46 am144 pts
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers reporting online on July 26 in Current Biology have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells (abstract). The findings represent a key advance for optogenetics,…

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