What is the best way to analyse dual recordings in order to find evidence for a monosynaptic connection?

I have dual recordings of neurons, in which one cell was stimulated to fire an action potential, and I record synaptic currents in the other cell. This gets repeated 30 times for each direction in...

08 September 2013 5,382 10 View

Has anyone got experience using the GCaMP3 mouse model for in vivo imaging? If so, how good is the fluorescent signal?

I'm looking at using a GCaMP3 mouse line to do in vivo imaging of hypothalamus in a mouse, do you guys think that the signal will be bright enough ?

08 September 2012 718 3 View

Submandibular bleeding

I was wondering if anyone uses the submandibular bleeding technique for repeated blood sampling from mice. If so, How many samples can you acquire? and of what volumes? Also, what does the health...

01 February 2012 2,674 9 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

Does anyone have a stack of images of action potentials or abnormal brain scans?

I need a stack of black and white .jpeg/.tiff/.jpg/.png images across time of either action potentials, neurons firing, or brain scans (comparing disease and normal brain, disease progression,...

09 February 2021 2,648 3 View

Help needed: How to map AA, AG, and GG genotypes on to polymorphism information?

Dear Colleagues, I am new to genes and genotyping and I need help. I am trying to figure our how AA, AG, and GG genotypes map on to A1 for DRD2/ANKK1 Taq1A polymorphism(rs1800497) and Val or MET...

02 February 2021 3,861 3 View

Does the pre-synaptic neuron location in a cortical map influences the spatial position of its synapses in the dendrite of the downstream neuron?

Are functional maps in the cortex used by the brain to carry out computations or are they just a byproduct of wiring minimization? A key element to answer this question is to know if, when...

26 January 2021 1,118 8 View

Lighting for open field test behavior assay?

I am currently setting up our lab's behavioral space to run the open field test in rats, and I am trying to figure out how to set up lighting to evenly illuminate the open field chamber (a 90 cm x...

26 January 2021 1,399 3 View

Can you apply graph theoratic functional connectivity analysis to study cognitive processes under external stimuli?

Can functional connectivity analysis using Graph Theory (Hub-ness, clustering coefficient, etc) be applied to study cognitive processes? I felt most of the analysis to study the brain after...

25 January 2021 4,575 3 View

What is the half-life of TNF-alpha in vitro?

I'm designing a low-grade chronic treatment with this cytokine and I'm wondering how regularly to change the culture medium based on the half-life of the protein in an in vitro environment....

24 January 2021 5,988 2 View

Help me conduct a neuroscience experiment for my master's thesis?

22 January 2021 9,994 5 View

What are some recent publications showing the predictor power of resting state brain acitivity for tasks done outside the MRI scanner?

Looking for recent articles (2018-2020) that showed resting state brain activity can predict cognitive task performance (e.g., attentional and executive functioning tasks) done in the lab AFTER...

09 January 2021 2,310 2 View

What are the essential elementts of a Nature Neuroscience Paper?

What would land a neuroscience paper in Nature Neuroscience? What is the minimum a paper should have to pass the editorial scrutiny in Nature Neuroscience or the journals around the same cadre?...

01 January 2021 1,510 2 View