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NEURON
Volume 93, Issue 3, Pages 509-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.12.031
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- NIH Director's Transformative Research Award [NS081707]
- EUREKA Fund [DA037152, DA033396, K99/R00, DA038725]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant - Korean government (MEST) [NRF-2016R1A2A1A05004935]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB351900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11402134, 11320101001]
- NSF [DMR1121262, CMMI-1300846, CMMI-1400169]
- NIH [R01EB019337]
- McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Indian American Urological Association/Kailash Kedia, MD Research Scholar Fund
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1400169] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In vivo optogenetics provides unique, powerful capabilities in the dissection of neural circuits implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders. Conventional hardware for such studies, however, physically tethers the experimental animal to an external light source, limiting the range of possible experiments. Emerging wireless options offer important capabilities that avoid some of these limitations, but the current size, bulk, weight, and wireless area of coverage is often disadvantageous. Here, we present a simple but powerful setup based on wireless, near-field power transfer and miniaturized, thin, flexible optoelectronic implants, for complete optical control in a variety of behavioral paradigms. The devices combine subdermal magnetic coil antennas connected to microscale, injectable light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with the ability to operate at wavelengths ranging from UV to blue, green-yellow, and red. An external loop antenna allows robust, straightforward application in a multitude of behavioral apparatuses. The result is a readily mass-producible, user-friendly technology with broad potential for optogenetics applications.
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