Employing optogenetics in memory research

Limor Regev, Inbal Goshen

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Abstract

Optogenetics presents many opportunities for memory research, and was indeed warmly embraced by the field, and already employed to probe memory mechanisms in over a hundred published projects. The incorporation of optogenetics enabled scientists to causally pinpoint the real-time roles of specific neuronal populations within the brain structures underlying memory, the functional connections between them, and the dynamics of memory representation over time. This chapter presents an elaborate point-by-point plan of designing and executing any optogenetic memory experiment, recognizes possible pitfalls, and offers solutions. The technical aspects will be discussed in light of multiple examples of the ways in which optogenetics has been used in memory research, and the exciting insight it provided.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeuromethods
Pages219-256
Number of pages38
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Publication series

NameNeuromethods
Volume133

Keywords

  • Control group
  • Freely moving
  • Memory fear conditioning
  • Operant conditioning
  • Recognition
  • Spatial navigation

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Neuroscience

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