Neuropixels probes promise new era of brain research / Le sonde dei neuropixel promettono una nuova era della ricerca del cervello Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa Humanity may be on the cusp of an exciting new phase of neuroscience thanks to the development of highly sensitive silicon devices called Neuropixels probes. Created by an international team including UCL and nanotechnology company imec, the probes are 10mm long and just 70×20µm wide – thinner than a human hair. Each one contains 960 recording sites, measuring the activity of hundreds of different neurons across multiple brain regions. According to the researchers, the probes will enable the study of more neurons simultaneously than ever before, and could provide insight on conditions such as Alzheimer’s and depression. “To understand the brain we need to understand how a lot of neurons spread all over the brain work together,” said co-author Professor Matteo
