New Method Enables Long-Lasting Imaging of Rapid Brain Activity in Individual Cells Deep in the Cortex

Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Cell a new sensor that enables neuroscientists to image brain activity without missing signals for an extended time and deeper in the brain than previously possible. 

“It has been challenging to figure out how to noninvasively observe the millisecond-fast electrical activity in individual neurons of specific cell types in animals carrying on an activity. To be able to do this has been the holy grail of neuroimaging," said senior author François St-Pierre, Baylor College of Medicine.

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