Informational lesions: Optical perturbation of spike timing and neural synchrony via microbial opsin gene fusions

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2009, Pages

  Han, Xue ^a,b,c   Qian, Xiaofeng ^a,c   Stern, Patrick ^b   Chuong, Amy S ^a   Boyden, Edward S ^a,b,c  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channelrhodopsin 2; Fusion protein; Halorhodopsin; Optogenetics; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950935182     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.02.012.2009     Document Type: Article

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