Sentences with phrase «monitor neural activity»

Van Swinderen has inserted an electrode into the fly's brain to monitor its neural activity.

Pezaris has also enlisted the help of Emad Eskandar, a neurosurgeon at MGH who specializes in deep - brain stimulation, which has been used to treat Parkinson's disease and monitor neural activity in people suffering from seizures.

Neuroscientists who want to follow the nervous system's cellular conversations will soon have access to easy - to - use technology that simultaneously monitors neural activity at hundreds of different...

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I recently visited a laboratory in which the activities of individual neurons were being monitored by transducing the neural impulses to pulses of sound.

After getting a full night's rest at the lab, which researchers monitored by measuring neural electrical activity, their brains were scanned via functional MRI as they waited to be shown, and then viewed 90 images during a 45 - minute session.

Tools developed via the Brain Activity Map may monitor vast ensembles of neurons as they fire — bringing static maps of neural circuits to life (shown above).

New devices are being developed by Medtronic and other medical device companies that can allow both stimulation and monitoring of the neural activity which can facilitate tuning of the parameters and even delivery of stimulation triggered by neural activity.

The sensors have considerable power and capability to monitor sensitive neural and physiological activity, Varadan said.

During the experiment, the neural activity of the participants was monitored by encephalogram (EEG), a non-invasive technique that can be used to register activity in the range of milliseconds.

In the last few years, powerful experimental techniques that can monitor the activity of many neurons at once have generated a new field of neuroscience — «neural dynamics» — which uses sophisticated mathematical models to describe how brain activity evolves on a moment - to - moment basis.

He has also worked extensively to develop new tools for monitoring and manipulating neural activity in awake, active animals.

Implanted neural probes are currently the only way to monitor the fast electrophysiological activity of individual neurons.

In the Deisseroth lab, he plans to use optical techniques to selectively monitor and perturb neural network activity patterns.