Scientists caution use of a novel technique to understand relationship between brain activity & behavior
Scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
(JNCASR), Bengaluru, have found a gap in new technology that is today widely
used to study communication between neurons. Dr. James Clement’s lab at
JNCASR, Bengaluru, along with Prof Vidita Vaidya’s lab (Main author) at Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, demonstrated specific flaws
in Chemogenetics which is a technique that uses chemicals to understand how
neurons are activated. Chemogenetics is the process by which macromolecules
can be engineered to interact with previously unrecognized small molecules and
has been widely used to understand the relationship between brain activity and
behavior.
