A Harvard team built a CMOS chip that can see the signals across 2,000 rat neurons, allowing the team to map over 70,000 connections — a first in the field of neural research.

Harvard researchers have mapped and cataloged more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...

To form a synaptic connection in the CNS ... which induces presynaptic differentiation at neuron–neuron connections in vitro. Candidate synaptic inducers should be expressed in neurons during ...

Neuron-to-neuron contact points are called synapses, and scientists seek to draw synaptic connection maps that show not only which neurons connect to which other neurons, but also how strong each ...

The cellular and molecular mechanisms that ensure the elaborate connection and function of the nervous system can then be dissected with single neuron resolution. How can one achieve this purpose?

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Patch-clamps only record a single neuron’s activity and are not scalable ... the neurons are connected — and we want to know the connection strengths of the neurons.” ...

While the woman was fit till death, an MRI imaging showed presence of neuropathology which indicated Alzheimer's disease in ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons ...

Motor neuron diseases are a group of disorders in ... but it really enhances the connection we can have together as a family.” ...