Deciphering the Neural Circuit Basis of Brain Disease via In Vivo Imaging and Optogenetics OPEN TO PUBLIC At Neuroscience 2013 Inscopix is pleased to host an esteemed group of speakers sharing insights on recent developments in in vivo brain imaging and optogenetics that are together poised to enable breakthroughs in the understanding of brain diseases.
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Scientists at Stanford University have tapped into the mind of the mouse and are now circulating information about how the pesky rodents think. A team of Stanford researchers planted tiny probes inside the brains of mice to detect what were essentially mouse memories, according to a study published last month in the online edition of
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President Barack Obama announced today a bold research initiative aimed at developing new technologies and methods for understanding the human brain. Several Stanford scientists will play critical roles in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which calls for initial funding of $100 million. “As humans we can identify galaxies light-years away,” President
STANFORD, Calif. — It’s not quite mind-reading, but it may be the closest scientists have ever come. Stanford researchers have found a way to watch what’s happening deep inside the brain of a mouse. Researchers carefully implanted a tiny lens inside the mouse’s brain. It’s the lens for a microscope so small, the mouse can
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MOUNTAIN VIEW Calif., Oct. 12, 2012 – Inscopix, Inc. and SRI International today announced a collaborative neuroscience imaging R&D program. Researchers from Inscopix and SRI’s Center for Neuroscience and Metabolic Diseases will use Inscopix’s nVista™ HD imaging system to gain a better understanding of normal brain function and the dysfunctions of neural circuitry that underlie
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Unbounded creativity—and powerful computers—make possible the latest devices designed to peer into the deepest recesses of organs and cells. Photography has come a long way in the two decades since digital cameras all but relegated picture taking on film to a chapter in the history book of technology. Image-processing tools like Photoshop and mobile apps
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The neurotechnology industry—comprising devices, diagnostics, and drugs targeting the brain and the rest of the nervous system—grew 5.6% in 2011 to $158.6 billion in revenues, reports market research firm NeuroInsights. That growth was evident at the 2012 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting (October 13–17; New Orleans, LA), where a number of companies announced interesting new
Scientists have developed a miniature fluorescence microscope small enough to implant in the head of a living mouse and gather images from its brain without hindering its movement. The 1.9-gram, 2.4-cubic-centimetre device is described today in Nature Methods1. The device has already yielded results. The authors, led by applied physicist Mark Schnitzer and electrical engineer
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In vivo imaging scientists broadcast from inside the brains of moving animals. A message on an Alzheimer’s disease online board seeks advice about a 75-year-old aunt who incessantly yells at her 80-year-old husband without whom she cannot move about. The aunt has stopped eating and refuses a doctor’s visit. Behavioral changes in patients with Alzheimer’s
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A readily portable miniature microscope weighing less than 2 grams and tiny enough to balance on your fingertip has been developed by Stanford University researchers. The scope is designed to see fluorescent markers, such as dyes, commonly used by medical and biological researchers studying the brains of mice. The new device has no moving parts
Researchers package a fluorescence microscope—including the light and camera—that can image the brain of a freely moving mouse. THE DEVICE: Weighing in at just 1.9 grams, this fluorescence microscope is designed for portability—not just in a pocket, but mounted on the head of a mouse freely able to move around. The scope’s housing, including the
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An inexpensive microscope about the size of a gumdrop could allow scientists to peer into the inner workings of living, moving animals much more easily. The device is small and light enough—it weighs less than two grams—to be mounted atop a rodent’s head, where it can capture the activity of up to 200 individual brain
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