Plasticity and place: Study shows a key neural mechanism of remembering locations March 25, 2024 … they engineered place cells to glow when they built up calcium ions, a proxy for electrical activity. They saw that …
Study shows how a single neuron’s parallel outputs can coordinate many aspects of behavior September 27, 2023 … of HSN during these behaviors (by tracking the flow of calcium ions within the cell as animals freely moved) and saw …
With sophisticated tools in a simple model, scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior February 20, 2020 … an innovative imaging system that can reliably image the calcium activity of virtually every neuron in real time, even …
Autism advances June 16, 2025 … trafficked within neurons to create channels for importing calcium and exporting potassium ions. Those electrochemical …
Microscopy technique reveals hidden nanostructures in cells and tissues August 29, 2022 … them to visualize, in detail, “nanocolumns” consisting of calcium channels aligned with other synaptic proteins. These …
Study of synapse strength focuses on ‘active zones’ March 16, 2021 … disability. Video from a 2018 Littleton Lab study shows calcium flux (green) indicating the release of glutamate at …
Live imaging method brings structural information to mapping of brain function September 17, 2020 … when they become electrically active (and show changes in calcium) in response to a particular stimulation. For …
Neuroscientists find memory cells that help us interpret new situations April 06, 2020 … neurons in the hippocampus showed significantly greater calcium activity (warmer colors) during specific laps. Above …
Scope advance reveals first look through all cortical layers of awake brain January 11, 2019 … because they had engineered them to glow upon elevated calcium activity, using a label called GCaMP6s. They could …
