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The "love hormone" or the "social hormone"?

The "love hormone" may also cause anxiety and aggression

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The 2016 Harvey Awards ceremony. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion spokesperson.

The 2016 Harvey Prize was awarded for the discovery of gravitational waves and the development of optogenetics

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A general view of nerve fibers stretching from cells in the forebrain of a mouse demonstrates the advantages of the hydrogel method that allows researchers to follow the complex neural wiring. Source: Dysroth Laboratory, Stanford University.

A look into the transparent mind

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Schematic representation of the passage of light through the detector complex of a photoreceptor and the progress of the light to the effector (courtesy: © TU Graz/IBC).

A biological system with a light switch

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The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. From Wikipedia

Why hacking the nervous system could be the next big medical treatment?

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Neurons glowing with fluorescent light. Illustration: shutterstock

Scientists used flashes of light and were able to regulate the strength of communication between brain regions far apart from each other

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In the picture: an illustration of a future holographic stimulation system mounted on glasses that will serve as a visual "prosthesis" for the blind. Images from a miniature video camera will be converted in real time into holograms projected by a laser onto retinal cells (at the back of the eye) that have been genetically modified to be sensitive to light. Illustration: Ina Gefen, Roman Kanavsky and Shai Shom

Technion researchers have developed a new approach to artificially activate a blind retina

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Light up/wake up the brain - control of animal behavior through optogenetics

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