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Mind Control with Lasers: Optical Recording Part II

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Optical Control of Neural Activity

Today we're going to be talking about optical control of neural activity. I wanted as just if someone could start us off at the really basic level and just summarize for us what is an action potential and what causes it to occur in the nuron. The next thing i was going to ask is, simply, how do researchers artificially induce this process using light? What's the transduction mechanism to cause an ron to fire an action potential? What are the modalities that you can use?

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