{"id":90184,"date":"2019-05-01T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T01:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/brain-mapping-new-technique-reveals-how-information-is-processed"},"modified":"2019-05-01T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T01:22:18","slug":"brain-mapping-new-technique-reveals-how-information-is-processed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/brain-mapping-new-technique-reveals-how-information-is-processed","title":{"rendered":"Brain mapping: New technique reveals how information is processed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new method for quickly and efficiently mapping the vast network of connections among neurons in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers combined infrared laser stimulation techniques with functional magnetic resonance imaging in animals to generate mapping of connections throughout the brain. The technique was described in a study published in the journal <em>Science Advances<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a revolution in detecting connections in the brain,\u201d said senior author Anna Wang Roe, Ph.D., a professor in the Division of Neuroscience at OHSU\u2019s Oregon National Primate Research Center. \u201cThe ability to easily map connections in the living brain with high precision opens doors for other applications in medicine and engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/05\/190501131424.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new method for quickly and efficiently mapping the vast network of connections among neurons in the brain. Researchers combined infrared laser stimulation techniques with functional magnetic resonance imaging in animals to generate mapping of connections throughout the brain. The technique was described in a study published in the journal Science Advances. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90184","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}