Neural circuit reprogramming: a new paradigm for treating neuropsychiatric disease?

Neuron. 2014 Sep 17;83(6):1259-61. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.022.

Abstract

Theoretically, harnessing the brain's own endogenous plasticity mechanisms could serve to alter both internal states and external behavior in a therapeutic manner.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Mental Disorders / physiopathology*
  • Mental Disorders / therapy*
  • Neuronal Plasticity / physiology*
  • Optogenetics / methods*