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… and flexibility of its nervous system C. elegans behavior calcium imaging … neuron in its head (cells are engineered to flash when calcium ions build up). Reliably distinguishing and tracking …

… to ourselves?” Above: Wilson lab postdoc Wei Guo, employed calcium imaging of neural activity to show that over the …

… their ability to track all neuron activity (based on their calcium fluctuations) and all behaviors to watch how the … neuron was impacted by serotonin. “We performed brain-wide calcium imaging in freely-moving animals with knowledge of …

… from their seminal work in the 1990s that the flow of calcium ions through NMDA receptor can trigger a form of …

… To keep constant track of neural activity, as indicated by calcium-triggered flashes of light, the Flavell lab invented … of neurons across the worm’s brain, as indicated by calcium-triggered flashes of light. Ji used the scope to …

… trafficked within neurons to create channels for importing calcium and exporting potassium ions. Those electrochemical …

… electrically active, an indication provided by a surge of calcium ions. From those flashes they saw that a particular … notes that recently-developed technologies for whole-brain calcium imaging have opened the possibility of measuring …

… of neurotransmitters when triggered by an influx of calcium ions. But even with SYT1 disabled, synapses could … SYT7 they didn’t see major differences in anatomy or calcium influx that could explain how SYT7 works to limit …

… of HSN during these behaviors (by tracking the flow of calcium ions within the cell as animals freely moved) and saw …