{"id":150773,"date":"2022-11-22T05:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/high-resolution-mri-enables-direct-imaging-of-neuronal-activity"},"modified":"2022-11-22T05:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:23:24","slug":"high-resolution-mri-enables-direct-imaging-of-neuronal-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/high-resolution-mri-enables-direct-imaging-of-neuronal-activity","title":{"rendered":"High-resolution MRI enables direct imaging of neuronal activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-resolution-mri-enables-direct-imaging-of-neuronal-activity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medical television shows sometimes depict thoughts skipping across the brain as action potentials that ignite like exploding stars. While it looks dramatic and impressive, today\u2019s brain-imaging technologies can\u2019t visualize brain activity so sensitively. A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called DIANA \u2013 direct imaging of neuronal activity \u2013 may get us closer, though.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>An alternative to BOLD fMRI<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A brain signal begins with an action potential caused by rapid changes in voltage across cellular membranes. Researchers involved in this proof-of-concept study, reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abh4340\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>, say that DIANA might measure this neuronal activity by capturing the intracellular voltage of a group of neurons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical television shows sometimes depict thoughts skipping across the brain as action potentials that ignite like exploding stars. While it looks dramatic and impressive, today\u2019s brain-imaging technologies can\u2019t visualize brain activity so sensitively. A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called DIANA \u2013 direct imaging of neuronal activity \u2013 may get us closer, though. An [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150773","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}