{"id":221691,"date":"2025-09-10T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/alleviating-head-mounted-weight-burden-for-neural-imaging-in-freely-behaving-rodents"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:17:24","slug":"alleviating-head-mounted-weight-burden-for-neural-imaging-in-freely-behaving-rodents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/alleviating-head-mounted-weight-burden-for-neural-imaging-in-freely-behaving-rodents","title":{"rendered":"Alleviating head-mounted weight burden for neural imaging in freely-behaving rodents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alleviating-head-mounted-weight-burden-for-neural-imaging-in-freely-behaving-rodents2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liu <i>et al.<\/i> present a remarkably simple yet clever method of mitigating the effects of head-mounted microscopes on mouse behavior: they tethered a helium balloon to the microscope device to counter its weight! A fun and useful engineering solution!<\/p>\n<p>Link to article.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<i>Scientific Reports<\/i> \u2014 Alleviating head-mounted weight burden for neural imaging in freely-behaving rodents. <i>Sci Rep<\/i> 15, 19175 (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-025-04300-0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-025-04300-0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu et al. present a remarkably simple yet clever method of mitigating the effects of head-mounted microscopes on mouse behavior: they tethered a helium balloon to the microscope device to counter its weight! A fun and useful engineering solution! Link to article. Scientific Reports \u2014 Alleviating head-mounted weight burden for neural imaging in freely-behaving rodents. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221691","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}