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.

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The ...

Scientists at Scripps Research Institute have created a groundbreaking method to track when brain cell activity decreases or switches off after a burst of activity using a combination of optogenetics ...

Cerebellum highlighted in orange with magnified close-up of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Cerebellar means "relating to the cerebellum." Source: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock In the mid-1970s, my ...