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Feng Zhang [0-0]

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Feng Zhang is the W. M. Keck Career Development Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.		101
Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.	Learning	102
Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.		103
There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.		104
There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.		105
If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.		106

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