Multiple-Color Optical Activation, Silencing, and Desynchronization of Neural Activity, with Single-Spike Temporal Resolution

Xue Han; Edward S. Boyden

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000299

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Multiple-Color Optical Activation, Silencing, and Desynchronization of Neural Activity, with Single-Spike Temporal Resolution

Xue Han,

Affiliations Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Edward S. Boyden

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: esb@media.mit.edu

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Multiple-Color Optical Activation, Silencing, and Desynchronization of Neural Activity, with Single-Spike Temporal Resolution

Xue Han,
Edward S. Boyden

Published: March 21, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000299

About the Authors

Xue Han

Affiliations Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward S. Boyden

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: esb@media.mit.edu

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB XH. Performed the experiments: EB XH. Analyzed the data: EB XH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB XH. Wrote the paper: EB XH.

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