Professor and Lab Head @GladstoneInst, Neuroscience Faculty @UCSF
Jun 17, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
For those using optogenetics: a cautionary tale. Light alone can modulate neural activity and behavior through heating. Our latest paper shows mechanism. 1/
In striatal projection neurons, we find that continuous illumination at 532nm for more than a couple seconds at >3mW suppresses firing without an opsin present. 2/
