TABLE 1.

The study of optogenetics in neurobiology.

The field of optogenetics	The specific research		References
Nerve cells	Induce neuronal differentiation		Shao et al., 2018
	Control the behavior of nerve cells		Moreira et al., 2019
	Study neuronal function		Aquili et al., 2014
Neural circuits	The neural circuits that regulate sodium appetite		Lee et al., 2019
	The nerve basis of compulsive feeding		Nieh et al., 2015; Kim et al., 2021
	Social behavioral neural circuits		Zhao et al., 2017; Yang Y. et al., 2021
	Body temperature regulating neural circuit		Zhao et al., 2017
	Spatial learning and memory circuits		Yang et al., 2018; Huang et al., 2021
	Neural circuit mechanisms that activate addictive memory		Alaghband et al., 2014
Nervous system-based clinical research	Nervous system	Alzheimer’s disease	Roy et al., 2016
		Parkinson’s disease	Ztaou et al., 2016
		Epilepsy	Chen et al., 2018
		Stroke	Yu et al., 2019
	Skeletal system		Bryson et al., 2014
	Urinary system		Mickle et al., 2019
	Pain		Samineni et al., 2017; Harriott et al., 2021
	Vision		Berry et al., 2019; Gilhooley et al., 2021
	Memory		Vetere et al., 2019