{"id":132785,"date":"2021-12-20T22:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-create-mind-blowing-tool-to-see-millions-of-brain-cell-connections-in-mice"},"modified":"2021-12-20T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:23:21","slug":"scientists-create-mind-blowing-tool-to-see-millions-of-brain-cell-connections-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-create-mind-blowing-tool-to-see-millions-of-brain-cell-connections-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create mind-blowing tool to \u2018see\u2019 millions of brain cell connections in mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Msp_REcFME8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To solve the mysteries of how learning and memory occur, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have created a system to track millions of connections among brain cells in mice\u2014all at the same time\u2014when the animals\u2019 whiskers are tweaked, an indicator for learning.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the new tool gives an unprecedented view of brain cell activity in a synapse\u2014a tiny space between two <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain cells<\/a>, where molecules and chemicals are passed back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was science fiction to be able to image nearly every synapse in the brain and watch a change in behavior,\u201d says Richard Huganir, Ph.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University and director of the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To solve the mysteries of how learning and memory occur, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have created a system to track millions of connections among brain cells in mice\u2014all at the same time\u2014when the animals\u2019 whiskers are tweaked, an indicator for learning. Researchers say the new tool gives an unprecedented view of brain cell activity in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}