Neuropixels Opto Integrates Electrophysiology and Optogenetics to Probe Neuronal Function

Neuropixels Opto Integrates Electrophysiology and Optogenetics to Probe Neuronal Function

High-resolution extracellular electrophysiology is typically used to record from neurons in order to understand brain function. Combining electrophysiology with optogenetics allows researchers to test the causal role of specific neurons by activating or inactivating those populations while recording the effects of neural activity. Now, a new technology, co-developed by UCL scientists, simultaneously records and manipulates neuronal activity deep…

Neuropixels Opto Probe Rewrites Brain Data

A new study introduces Neuropixels Opto, an ultra-thin silicon probe narrower than a human hair capable of simultaneously monitoring and manipulating hundreds of individual neurons deep within the brain.

Probe Thinner Than a Hair Can Now Listen to Brain Cells and Boss Them Around at the Same Time

The thing is narrower than a single human hair, and along its silicon length sit close to a thousand tiny recording points and twenty-eight microscopic windows that spit out light. Slide it into the brain of a mouse and it does two jobs that neuroscientists have, for years, been forced to do separately. It eavesdrops … Read more The post Probe Thinner Than a Hair Can Now Listen to Brain Cells and Boss Them Around at the Same Time appeared first …