George Dragoi’s lab at Yale University used chronically implanted Buzsaki64 probes to study populations of simultaneously recorded place cells in rats. Subject exploration of novel environments promoted response generalization, while accumulated experience over several weeks improved discriminability. The results suggest new schemes for how the brain encodes new experiences.
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Cristin Welle’s lab recently published their new system for integrating chronic, extracellular electrophysiology using NeuroNexus A1x16-3mm-100-177-CM16LP probes with video data to conduct closed-loop stimulation experiments. The linear array was implanted in the mouse motor cortex and captured spike data from all layers during freely moving reach behaviors. These recordings provided neural data to complement behavioral data such that reach-related activity could be extracted.
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Gao et al. with Alexey Ponomarenko’s group in Berlin, Germany published in Nature Communications! NeuroNexus 32-channel linear probes and 8-shank probes were used to record single spikes and complex spike bursts in hippocampal CA1 neurons of awake behaving mice. Experimental manipulations included KCNQ3 genetic mutation affecting pyramidal cell M-type potassium channels and optogenetic disruption of up-stream circuitry. The paper parses out the factors contributing to coordination of spikes and bursts and how these may impact memory function.
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