Making waves in the brain

Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 14:07 in Biology & Nature

MIT researchers and colleagues have found a way to induce gamma waves -- high-frequency brain waves thought to be crucial to consciousness, attention, learning and memory -- by shining laser light directly onto the brains of mice.

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