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The Brain's Light Switch: How Optogenetics Learned to Flash Individual Neurons On and Off - and What This Reveals About the Circuits of Memory, Fear, Addiction, and Mental Illness - Softcover
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What if a flash of light could make a single brain cell fire - and, in doing so, reveal the hidden circuitry of memory, fear, craving, and mood? The Brain's Light Switch tells the astonishing story of optogenetics, the technique that gave scientists millisecond control over chosen neurons. For curious general readers, this is a gripping guide to one of the most important revolutions in modern neuroscience and what it means for understanding the mind.
Readers will discover how light-sensitive proteins borrowed from algae were turned into precision tools for the mammalian brain, why channelrhodopsin changed neuroscience almost overnight, and how researchers learned to test not just where brain activity happens, but what actually causes behavior. Along the way, the book explores the neural logic of fear, the puzzle of dopamine in pleasure and addiction, the search for memory traces, and the surprising path from basic research to efforts to restore sight.
Clear, vivid, and idea-driven, this book combines scientific detective story with a remarkably accessible explanation of how brains work. It brings together history, experiment, and big questions about mental illness, causality, and human identity - showing why optogenetics is more than a laboratory trick: it is a new way of seeing the brain.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Brain's Light Switch | How Optogenetics Learned to Flash Individual Neurons On and Off - and What This Reveals About the Circuits of Memory, Fear, Addiction, and Mental Illness | Rosalind K. Thayer | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | HiTeX Press | EAN 9798240804595 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Seller Inventory # 136345778