About the Authors

Inna Sukhotinsky

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander M. Chan

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science & Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Omar J. Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vikram R. Rao

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Viviana Gradinaru

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Charu Ramakrishnan

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Karl Deisseroth

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ania K. Majewska

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Sydney S. Cash

scash@partners.org

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Developed the model, conducted the experiments and wrote the first draft of the paper: IS. Performed immunohistochemical staining and part of the experiments: VRR. Designed and built the acquisition system: AMC SSC. Developed and contributed the vector: KD CR VG. Discussed the results and implications and reviewed and commented on the manuscript: IS AMC OJA VRR VG CR KD AKM SSC. Conceived and designed the experiments: SSC IS AKM. Performed the experiments: IS VRR. Analyzed the data: IS AMC OJA SSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KD CR VG. Wrote the paper: IS SSC AMC OJA.