Andrew Huberman· PhD
The specificity of optogenetics is really only useful if you have some idea of how to use that specificity.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The specificity of optogenetics is really only useful if you have some idea of how to use that specificity.
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whereas when you use optogenetics, you confine the stimulation just to the region where you've implanted the channelrhodopsin gene into those neurons.