I’m not too familiar with infrared neuromodulation, but it isn’t a widely used technique in systems neuroscience. My guess is it would be hard to target individ

I’m not too familiar with infrared neuromodulation, but it isn’t a widely used technique in systems neuroscience. My guess is it would be hard to target individual neurons, let alone target a genetically defined population of cells. Heating is usually what causes damage from light stimulation, so we try to minimize heating as much as possible—the brain very tightly controls temperature