A method for identifying brain cells that determine and can evoke a particular submodality element of sensation by their expression of immediate early genes and cell-type- and subtype-specific proteins, in response to the characteristic stimulus, where inactivation of the identified cell subtype-specific proteins eliminates the function of that cell subtype, as well as the behavioral response correlated with the characteristic stimulus, without eliminating responses to stimuli for the other elements within the same submodality.
IDENTIFYING BRAIN LOCI AND PROTEIN SPECIFICITY OF CELLS THAT DETERMINE MENTAL STATES