| | Main About Caltech News & Events Research & Education Join Us | 04/20/2016 11:36:16 Mapping Neurons to Improve the Treatment of Parkinson's Share this: Untangling the tangled webs inside our brains: the different colors represent pathways involving different cells that instruct diverse behaviors. Using optogenetics and tissue clearing via PACT, Caltech scientists could extract specific pathways for locomotion and reward. Credit: Ken Chan and Viviana Gradinaru Group at Caltech Because billions of neurons are packed into our brain, the neuronal circuits that are responsible for controlling our behaviors are by necessity highly intermingled. This tangled web makes it complicated for scientists to determine exactly which circuits do what. Now, using two laboratory techniques pioneered in p
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