Optogenetics Based Rat–Robot Control: Optical Stimulation Encodes “Stop” and “Escape” Commands

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1851-1864

  Chen, Si Cong ^a,b   Zhou, Hong ^b   Guo, Song Chao ^b   Zhang, Jia Cheng ^a   Qu, Yi ^b   Feng, Zhou Yan ^a   Xu, Ke Di ^b   Zheng, Xiao Xiang ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Dorsal periaqueductal gray; Optical encoding; Rat robot

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NEURONS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; RATS; ROBOTS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

BEHAVIORAL CONTROL; BRAIN STIMULATION; DORSAL PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; DOWNSTREAM CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; OPTICAL ENCODING; OPTICAL STIMULATION;

RAT CONTROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROBOTICS; STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; MALE; OPTOGENETICS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84937873454     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1235-x     Document Type: Article

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