• New technique to see individual brain cell networks evolve in real time.
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[img]http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/7-newtechnique.jpg[/img] This is a diagram of the experimental setup. [quote] Standard light microscopes don't allow researchers to look into the interior of the living brain, where memories are formed and diseases such as dementia and cancer can take their toll. But Stanford scientists have devised a new method that not only lets them peer deep inside the brain to examine its neurons but also allows them to continue monitoring for months. The technique promises to improve understanding of both the normal biology and diseased states of this hidden tissue. Other recent advances in micro-optics had enabled scientists to take a peek at cells of the deep brain, but their observations captured only a momentary snapshot of the microscopic changes that occur over months and years with aging and illness. The Stanford development appears online Jan. 16 in the journal Nature Medicine. It also will appear in the February 2011 print edition. [/quote] [url]http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-technique-neurons-deep-brain-months.html[/url] It's basically a microscope that lets them see deep within the brain without cutting it open.
Neurology has always been invasive, very exciting stuff here.
This is quite something Brain is after all the key to our limitlessness in creativity.
The diseased tissue and healthy tissue indicated on that image look the same.
If they find a way to read thought like that, privacy is dead.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;27461513]looks like a a chart for the female sex organ.[/QUOTE] What kind of women have you been around?
[QUOTE=macacan;27461256]The diseased tissue and healthy tissue indicated on that image look the same.[/QUOTE] Why do you think they had to invent this thing?
[QUOTE=RichyZ;27461513]looks like a a chart for the female sex organ.[/QUOTE] ummmm what
this is interesting.
I've always found it somewhat funny that the thing that allows us to understand anything, this thing that makes us 'us', the only one thing we've ever really known or had is the one thing that still almost completely eludes us.
this is cool
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