What Are Optogenetics?

This video won first place in the 2017 Brain Awareness Video Contest with BrainFacts.org and the Society for Neuroscience: http://www.brainfacts.org/bavc What if you could control someone's mind and make them more aggressive or less anxious or extremely hungry? Well, IT'S POSSIBLE! Optogenetics let scientists literally control the brain using light. Using whaa?? Yep, the light actually controls the signaling of individual neurons through channelrhodopsin. Learn more about how neuroscientists are controlling minds with Alie Astrocyte! Sources: http://www.scientificamerican.com/art... https://neuwritesd.org/2015/12/10/a-t... https://neuwritesd.org/2013/12/04/con... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26... Neuro Transmissions is a channel on a mission to bring neuroscience to everyone. It's not rocket surgery, it's brain science! Learn all sorts of fun and interesting things with Alie Astrocyte and Micah Psych every other Sunday by subscribing to the channel. Have a topic you want covered? Let us know in the comments. Share, like, and subscribe for more videos to come! Over and out. Neuro Transmissions is on the other social medias too:   / neurotransmissions     / neuroyoutube     / neurotransmissions   http://www.neurotransmissions.science   / neuroyoutube   Snapchat - @neuroyoutube Vector images from freepik.com The following images and videos were used for educational purposes and fall under fair use laws: https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/01/o... http://www.bbc.com/news/science-envir... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...    • Video      • Scientists use laser to activate predatory...      • Video   All other content is original and/or owned by Neuro Transmissions.