Lighting Up the Brain: The Science of Optogenetics

Zimmer, Marc

 
9781512427523: Lighting Up the Brain: The Science of Optogenetics
ISBN 10: 1512427527 ISBN 13: 9781512427523
Verlag: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm), 2018

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What if neuroscientists could look inside the human brain and watch individual brain cells send signals to one another? What if they could then control these brain cells to direct thoughts and actions?

This may sound like science fiction, but it's actually a scientific revolution called optogenetics. Neuroscientists would like to use this new technology on human brains to uncover secrets about how the brain processes information and drives human behavior. Doctors hope to use optogenetics to restore sight and to treat Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, and other debilitating or deadly health problems. Discover how the innovative work of leaders in the field is poised to radically transform science, medicine, and human health.

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Marc Zimmer is the author of several nonfiction young adult books and a professor at Connecticut College, where he teaches chemistry and studies the proteins involved in producing light in jellyfish and fireflies. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and did his post-doc at Yale University. He has published articles on science and medicine for the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and the Huffington Post, among many other publications. He lives in Waterford, Connecticut, with his wife, their two children, and a genetically modified fluorescent mouse named Prometheus.

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Verlag
Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1512427527
ISBN 13 
9781512427523
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Anzahl der Seiten
80
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