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Illuminating circuitry relevant to psychiatric disorders with optogenetics

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Steinberg, Elizabeth E, Christoffel, Daniel J, Deisseroth, Karl, Malenka, Robert C·2015·Current Opinion in Neurobiology

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The brain's remarkable capacity to generate cognition and behavior is mediated by an extraordinarily complex set of neural interactions that remain largely mysterious. This complexity poses a significant challenge in developing therapeutic interventions to ameliorate psychiatric disease. Accordingly, few new classes of drugs have been made available for patients with mental illness since the 1950s. Optogenetics offers the ability to selectively manipulate individual neural circuit elements that underlie disease-relevant behaviors and is currently accelerating the pace of preclinical research into neurobiological mechanisms of disease. In this review, we highlight recent findings from studies that employ optogenetic approaches to gain insight into normal and aberrant brain function relevant to mental illness. Emerging data from these efforts offers an exquisitely detailed picture of disease-relevant neural circuits in action, and hints at the potential of optogenetics to open up entirely new avenues in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

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  • Unlike dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens caused by optogenetic stimulation or administration of drugs of abuse, serotonin release in the nucleus accumbens is not acutely reinforcing.

    “Importantly, unlike the release of DA in the NAc caused by optogenetic stimulation or administration of drugs of abuse [11,21,53,54], 5-HT release in the NAc is not acutely reinforcing [11,21,47] but see ref. [55].”

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Authors
Steinberg, E. E., Christoffel, D. J., Deisseroth, K., & Malenka, R. C.
Affiliations
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Malenka, Robert C
Venue
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-02
Volume
30
Pages
9-16
ISSN
0959-4388 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2035669017
Cited by
92
References
72
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 2
FWCI
1.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Current Opinion in Neurobiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Simons Foundation
  • DARPA
  • NSF
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Keywords
optogenetics, mental illness, neural circuits, neural circuit manipulation, psychiatric drug development
MeSH terms
Mental Disorders, Brain, Humans, Nerve Net, Neural Pathways, Photic Stimulation, Optogenetics

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