The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in the field of optogenetics.
Optogenetics is "a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain", the Nobel Assembly said.
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