The recording and analysis for the neurons’ single unit discharge is one of the important content among the comprehensive experiments in basic medicine. However

the traditional experiments are not very good for students to understand the mechanism underlying the neuronal action potentials. According to the high comprehensive quality and high requirements of training in eight-year medical students

in the past two years

we have entrained the optogenetics into the single unit recording experiment and set up a neuronal discharge evoked by the optogenetics” experiment. In this article

we summarized the teaching design and experience of this experiment.