The field is buzzing about work on brain-computer interfaces for speech, the mechanism of psychedelics, a broader definition of hippocampal representations and more.
www.thetransmitter.org/community/th...
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Our microbial-opsin work (and most of the field ) is basic science, but it was intriguing to review clinical progress–direct & indirect–with a wonderful team of co-authors
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& adapt a fig. of PMID:28912215 (2017) with my long-time collaborator Peter Hegemann (pic: a memory from 2017).
Really cool stuff! Engineered excitatory opsins responding to 15nW light
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The field took note of work on brain-computer interfaces for speech, the mechanism of psychedelics, defining hippocampal representations, and more.
Breaking a hiatus to post this.
A group of Israeli Social Psychologists, myself included, wrote a letter to speak out clearly against the Israeli government’s decisions and the resulting devastation in Gaza.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In hopes of peace and safety for all, and soon
Very cool study by @oyiz.bsky.social using optogenetics to shed light on how oxytocin signaling regulates vocalization to maintain maternal bonds (with nice write-up by @bellonec.bsky.social, “Cries into ties” indeed) 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Transmitter
Dear friends of the Social Psychology community, After October 7, a group of Israeli social psychologists, including many of us, wrote a letter expressing our deep shock at the massacre, abuse, rape,...
WAChRs are excitatory opsins sensitive to indoor lighting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Niv Reggev ניב רגב نيڤ ريچيڤ
Cedric Boeckx
The International Conference on Retinal Proteins (ICRP2026) registration and abstract submission are now opened!!! www.congressi.unisi.it/retinalprote...
