March 2018

Kay Tye, PhD, is a neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at MIT. Her cutting-edge science has garnered prestigious awards, including the McKnight Scholar Award from 2015-2018. Her lab studies the neural circuit mechanisms of emotions and motivated behaviors in mice, and she’s been one of the neuroscientists collaborating with Inscopix to apply nVoke, our game-changing all-optical

What is a dream? This is a question that has been asked by people for thousands of years. Dreams have played crucial roles in affecting individual’s behaviors and even affecting the human history in a “supernatural” manner. The biological understanding of dreams was not available until the last century. With the contributions by many scientists,

February brought a number of blockbuster papers related to neural circuit research, including two papers that applied Inscopix technology. The behaviors studied ranged from motor learning, sleep, decision-making, fear, thirst, hunting, predation, and evasion. Plus there’s a novel genetically encoded fluorescent voltage reporter this month! Two of the papers have videos that accompany them, so