{"id":161657,"date":"2023-04-06T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/using-photons-as-neurotransmitters-to-control-the-activity-of-neurons"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:24:51","slug":"using-photons-as-neurotransmitters-to-control-the-activity-of-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/using-photons-as-neurotransmitters-to-control-the-activity-of-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Using Photons as Neurotransmitters to Control the Activity of Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-photons-as-neurotransmitters-to-control-the-activity-of-neurons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Researchers present a new system that uses photons instead of chemical neurotransmitters to control neural activity.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ICFO<\/p>\n<p>Our brains are made of billions of neurons, which are connected forming complex networks. They communicate between themselves by sending electrical signals, known as action potentials, and chemical signals, known as neurotransmitters, in a process called synaptic transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers present a new system that uses photons instead of chemical neurotransmitters to control neural activity. Source: ICFO Our brains are made of billions of neurons, which are connected forming complex networks. They communicate between themselves by sending electrical signals, known as action potentials, and chemical signals, known as neurotransmitters, in a process called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161657","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=161657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}