{"id":169166,"date":"2023-08-07T02:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/head-mounted-robot-allows-mice-to-be-tracked-while-moving"},"modified":"2023-08-07T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T07:25:28","slug":"head-mounted-robot-allows-mice-to-be-tracked-while-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/head-mounted-robot-allows-mice-to-be-tracked-while-moving","title":{"rendered":"Head-mounted robot allows mice to be tracked while moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/head-mounted-robot-allows-mice-to-be-tracked-while-moving2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new robotic headgear allows mice to move freely while being attached to heavy and cumbersome brain-recording machinery, allowing scientists to track their brain activity in motion, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/toolbox\/robotic-headgear-records-brain-activity-in-moving-mice\/\" title=\"new report\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">new report<\/a> by <em>Spectrum<\/em> published on Thursday. The development could have major implications in neuropathy and other sciences of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Under normal circumstances, researchers analyze brain activity in an awake mouse by fixing the animal\u2019s head in a stiff unmovable position beneath a microscope. This however severely limits the mouse\u2019s range of motion and therefore does not produce accurate results.<\/p>\n<p>As Ted Abel, chair of neuroscience and pharmacology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who was not involved in the study, explained to<em> Spectrum<\/em>, this approach is not conducive to usable outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new robotic headgear allows mice to move freely while being attached to heavy and cumbersome brain-recording machinery, allowing scientists to track their brain activity in motion, according to a new report by Spectrum published on Thursday. The development could have major implications in neuropathy and other sciences of the brain. Under normal circumstances, researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169166","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}