Scientists caution use of a novel technique to understand relationship between brain activity & behavior
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.
