Home » Psychology news » OCD Mice And Optogenetics Treatments
OCD Mice And Optogenetics Treatments
June 11, 2013 by NewsBot
By applying light stimulation to highly specific neurons in the brain, the researchers managed to re-establish normal behaviour in mice that had beforehand presented pathological repetitive behaviour similar to that observed in human patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorders. These results are published in the journal Science...