Interest in deciphering the fundamental mechanisms and processes of the human mind
represents a central driving force in modern neuroscience research. Activities in support of …

In the mammalian nervous system, billions of neurons connected by quadrillions of
synapses exchange electrical, chemical and mechanical signals. Disruptions to this network …

As an important application of functional biomaterials, neural probes have contributed
substantially to studying the brain. Bioinspired and biomimetic strategies have begun to be …

Bioelectronic devices must be fast and sensitive to interact with the rapid, low-amplitude
signals generated by neural tissue. They should also be biocompatible and soft, and should …

Over the past 10 years, the development and convergence of microbial opsin engineering,
modular genetic methods for cell-type targeting and optical strategies for guiding light …

Brain computer interfaces (BCI) provide a direct communication link between the brain and a
computer or other external devices. They offer an extended degree of freedom either by …

The brain is a massive neuronal network, organized into anatomically distributed sub-
circuits, with functionally relevant activity occurring at timescales ranging from milliseconds …

New technologies to record electrical activity from the brain on a massive scale offer
tremendous opportunities for discovery. Electrical measurements of large-scale brain …

The hippocampal dentate gyrus is often viewed as a segregator of upstream information.
Physiological support for such function has been hampered by a lack of well-defined …

Genetically encoded calcium indicators for visualizing dynamic cellular activity have greatly
expanded our understanding of the brain. However, owing to the light-scattering properties …