2018

I recently spent a week traveling through the US Southeast together with our regional field team colleagues, Sarah MacNamee, Ph.D., Shanna Resendez, Ph.D., and Patrick Stemkowski, Ph.D. This trip was an opportunity to engage with neuroscientists utilizing our technology, and to immerse myself in the community of brain researchers thriving in the US Southeast. During

We’ve compiled our latest list of the neural circuit research papers published in July with relevance and interest to the Inscopix Community. They include several resource-oriented papers like simultaneous optogenetics and calcium imaging during free behavior, genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators for dopamine, and new calcium sensors, etc., all validated during in vivo behaviors. We include papers

The conference center for FENS 2018. Image by Stina Börchers (@stina.biologista). Thousands of scientists descended upon Berlin several weeks ago to attend Europe’s largest neuroscience conference. The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (i.e., “FENS”) Forum is a 5-day, biennial meeting boasting a full schedule of brainy presentations, exhibits, and social events. This year FENS was

There’s been a predominant view in neuroscience that behaviors like aggression in mice are hard-wired in the brain, especially in deep brain structures such as the hypothalamus. Through the use of Inscopix technology, Dr. David Anderson’s group at Caltech has been able to present evidence that development of aggressive or mating behavior, and the neural

June was a hot month for neural circuit research papers! Check out our list of the neural circuit research studies from last month that really impact our understanding of how neural circuits develop and function in vivo. We gain novel insights into the neural circuits relevant to stress and fear, memory, reward coding, and more.

One of the first weeks in my PhD lab, miniature microscope inventor Dr. Mark Schnitzer came to show us his dazzling new advancement for in vivo calcium imaging of brain circuits. I will never forget seeing videos of neurons lighting up like fireflies in a freely moving mouse. Even more astounding was the cell-type -specificity

Unbelievably, June is here, which means we have a bountiful crop of must-read neural circuit papers from May. Below, I’ve listed those that stood out based on relevance to the Inscopix community. The first two in the list used Inscopix technology and present results with clinical significance for neurodegenerative motor disorders. There are also excellent

Just about everything we do affects our conscious, felt experience, from what we choose to consume to where we choose to spend our time. In this podcast, Christof talks to us about the neural correlates of consciousness, and some of the work he began to cultivate with the Nobel Laureate Francis Crick when he was

Before starting graduate school in 2012, my fellow undergraduate researchers set me up with a Twitter account. Little did I know then, how much it would shape my PhD. If you’re not already an academic on Twitter or new to the forum, let me share with you how I use social media as a scientist

For neural circuit papers published in April, we highlight two that uncover the neural basis of parental behavior. Another paper uses nVista technology to study time cells. Other papers detail a circuit relevant to metabolic disease, another to aggression, and another implicates prelimbic cortex in fear extinction. Also don’t miss papers that study connections between

Interest in brain-machine interfaces (BMIs, also known as brain-computer interfaces) has surged in industry, with startups like CTRL-Labs, Mind-X and Neuralink seeking to develop and eventually commercialize devices intended to augment our own brains. Dr. Krishna Shenoy serves as an advisor to many of these emerging tech companies, and so when I found out I

Have you read these neuroscience papers related to neural circuits published in March 2018? These must-read research papers look at a breadth of behaviors, including the encoding of danger, itch, pain, head motion, foraging, memory, and visual responses (in the auditory cortex, no less!) Check them out! 1. Encoding of danger by parabrachial CGRP neurons