A Close Up Look 24 – Live Imaging
In this next Close Up Look, Gil Torten discusses improvements in imaging using confocal microscopy!…
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Imaging
A Close Up Look 20 – EM
In this edition of a Close Up Look, read about the process of electron microscopy on a retina sample!…
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A Close Up Look 18 – CLEM
Check out this “A Close Up Look” infographic to explore the equipment involved in, and the process of, CLEM – Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy!…
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Learning from Disorder: The Paradox of Information in the Brain
In Dante’s Inferno, the fifth circle of Hell is a place where the wrathful fight each other for eternity. Similarly, I often consider YouTube comments to be an extracanonical circle…
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Surfing Brainwaves with EEG: A Classic Tool for Recording Temporal Brain Dynamics
Pictures are powerful tools for illustrating quantitative data and capturing public interest. Each year, NASA releases many beautiful images of Martian dunes and distant nebulae which help win public funding.…
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Mapping the Information Highway in the Brain
It’s hard to imagine life without Google Maps nowadays. We use the interactive map daily to find out how to get from point A to point B. Wouldn’t it be…
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Reverse Inference: Neuroscience’s Greatest Fallacy?
The recent unveiling of the BRAIN Initiative promised a greater understanding of cognition through improved imaging techniques. However, the biggest problem in neuroscience is not the limits of technology, but…
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Imaging the Brain with Sculpted Light
Perhaps the biggest goal in neuroscience is to understand how individual neurons interact with each other in both space and time. The more detailed our understanding of complex neural networks…
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