title: Optogenetic investigation of neural circuits underlying brain disease in animal models.
abstract: Optogenetic tools have provided a new way to establish causal relationships between brain activity and behaviour in health and disease. Although no animal model captures human disease precisely, behaviours that recapitulate disease symptoms may be elicited and modulated by optogenetic methods, including behaviours that are relevant to anxiety, fear, depression, addiction, autism and parkinsonism. The rapid proliferation of optogenetic reagents together with the swift advancement of strategies for implementation has created new opportunities for causal and precise dissection of the circuits underlying brain diseases in animal models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 318 Campus Drive, Clark Center, Stanford, California 94305-5444, USA. kaytye@mit.edu
authors.forename: Kay M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Tye
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Deisseroth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000503:physiopathology*; D059906:Neuroimaging / Q000379:methods*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*