This volume is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the recent explosion of experimental tools in neuroscience that now make it possible to manipulate, record, and understand neuronal activity within the intact brain, and which are helping us learn how the many neurons that comprise a network act together to control behavior. Leaders in the field discuss the latest developments in optogenetics, functional imaging, circuit mapping, and the application of these tools to complex biological problems.
Author(s): Adam D. Douglass (eds.)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 301
Tags: Biophysics and Biological Physics; Neurosciences; Neurobiology; Neuropsychology
Front Matter....Pages i-x
High-Resolution Synaptic Connectomics....Pages 1-28
Decoding the Transcriptome of Neuronal Circuits....Pages 29-55
Fluorescent Proteins for Neuronal Imaging....Pages 57-96
The Voltage Imaging Frontier....Pages 97-127
Discovery and Development of Spectrally Diverse Channelrhodopsins (ChR) for Neurobiological Applications....Pages 129-146
Optogenetics in Drosophila melanogaster ....Pages 147-176
Optically Monitoring and Manipulating Brain and Behavior in C. elegans ....Pages 177-195
Sensorimotor Integration in the Spinal Cord, from Behaviors to Circuits: New Tools to Close the Loop?....Pages 197-234
Patterned Photostimulation in the Brain....Pages 235-270
Beyond Localization of Function: Dissecting a Neural Code with Optogenetics....Pages 271-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-301
