A New Microscope Has Been Developed That Can Capture Brain Signals
Electrical and chemical signals continue to move constantly in our brains. In the currently used technology, high-speed cameras and surgically opening a hole in the brain are required to display these signals. Researchers from the University of California Berkeley have developed a new microscope to overcome this difficult process. With the new microscope developed, millisecond shots in a mouse’s brain were displayed 1,000 times per second. The new imaging technique combines two-dimensional fluorescence microscopy and optical laser scanning in a state-of-the-art microscope capable of imaging a two-dimensional slice from the neocortex of the mouse brain 3,000 times per second....