{"id":238263,"date":"2026-06-03T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/reading-and-writing-neural-activity-with-neuropixels-opto-probes"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:07:23","slug":"reading-and-writing-neural-activity-with-neuropixels-opto-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/reading-and-writing-neural-activity-with-neuropixels-opto-probes","title":{"rendered":"Reading and writing neural activity with Neuropixels Opto probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reading-and-writing-neural-activity-with-neuropixels-opto-probes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High-density electrophysiology devices allow neuroscientists to observe spikes from large populations of neurons, and optogenetics allows them to drive or suppress those spikes. We show that a single device can combine these two capabilities, providing a high-resolution means to both read and write neural activity in the living brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-density electrophysiology devices allow neuroscientists to observe spikes from large populations of neurons, and optogenetics allows them to drive or suppress those spikes. We show that a single device can combine these two capabilities, providing a high-resolution means to both read and write neural activity in the living brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238263","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}