Apr 30, 2009

Laser-Controlled Humans Closer to Reality

An interesting take of WIRED magazine on the following article in Neuron:

Millisecond-Timescale Optical Control of Neural Dynamics in the Nonhuman Primate Brain,” by Xue Han, Xiaofeng Qian, Jacob G. Bernstein, Hui-hui Zhou, Giovanni Talei Franzesi, Patrick Stern, Roderick T. Bronson, Ann M. Graybiel, Robert Desimone and Edward S. Boyden. Neuron 62, 191–198, April 30, 2009.

Read the news article here and link to the original paper here.