The new miniscope will enable scientists to detect malfunctioning cells in neurological conditions.
“These are very important tools that can be transformative for any neuroscience question that requires looking at the activity of large populations of brain cells in freely behaving animals,” said Dr. Peyman Golshani, a professor of neurology at UCLA and the grant’s principal investigator., the miniscope has been used in more than 500 labs since it was built by UCLA researchers 10 years ago.
The two new miniscopes funded by the NIH grant will produce higher-resolution images than previous versions and allow researchers to see the fine structure of connections in the brain, rather than just the cell bodies. One miniscope will be light enough to be worn by a mouse and have a larger field of view than any similar microscope, and the other can be worn by a rat and image thousands of brain cells simultaneously.Besides Dr.
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