{"id":131527,"date":"2021-11-30T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/controlling-brain-circuits-behavior-and-emotion-using-light"},"modified":"2021-11-30T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:22:36","slug":"controlling-brain-circuits-behavior-and-emotion-using-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/controlling-brain-circuits-behavior-and-emotion-using-light","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Brain Circuits, Behavior, and Emotion Using Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controlling-brain-circuits-behavior-and-emotion-using-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: A newly developed system dubbed Opto-vTrap can temporarily trap vesicles from being released from brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Institute for Basic Science.<\/p>\n<p>Controlling signal transmission and reception within the brain circuits is necessary for neuroscientists to achieve a better understanding of the brain\u2019s functions. Communication among neuron and glial cells is mediated by various neurotransmitters being released from the vesicles through exocytosis. Thus, regulating vesicular exocytosis can be a possible strategy to control and understand brain circuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A newly developed system dubbed Opto-vTrap can temporarily trap vesicles from being released from brain cells. Source: Institute for Basic Science. Controlling signal transmission and reception within the brain circuits is necessary for neuroscientists to achieve a better understanding of the brain\u2019s functions. Communication among neuron and glial cells is mediated by various neurotransmitters [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}