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When lights take the circuits out

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Circuit-level perturbations in the brain's electrical activity may underlie social-interaction deficits seen in people with schizophrenia and autism. A new optogenetic tool was instrumental in making this discovery. See Article p.171

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Figure 1: Optogenetics and analysis of social dysfunction.

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  1. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, João Peça and Guoping Feng are at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.,

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