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Electrophysiology

Electrophysiology research articles can cover research involving whole cell patch-clamp recordings, voltage clamping, current clamping, multielectrode arrays, EEG, brain machine interfaces, field potentials, neural prosthetics, deep brain stimulation, synaptic plasticity and other work.

Electrophysiology Neurology Neuroscience

·July 15, 2010·2 min read

Neurobiology Research Finds GABA Interferes with Memory of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Patients

Neurobiology research from UCLA indicates the possibility of GABA interfering with working memory in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1, or NF1.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·January 18, 2013·2 min read

Scientists Build a Microimplant that Uses a Laser to Control Individual Nerve Cells

Scientists developed an implant that is able to genetically modify specific nerve cells, control them with light stimuli, and measure their electrical activity all at the same time.

This image shows a coronal section slice of a mouse olfactory bulb.

Electrophysiology Featured Genetics

·May 5, 2014·7 min read

Functioning of Aged Brains and Muscles in Mice Made Younger

A new study reports the protein GDF11 appears to improve brain and skeletal muscle function in older mice.

Electrophysiology Neuroscience

·May 17, 2011·1 min read

Sodium Channels Evolved Before Animals’ Nervous Systems, Research Shows

An essential component of animal nervous systems—sodium channels—evolved prior to the evolution of those systems, researchers from The University of...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 9, 2013·3 min read

Research Advances Knowledge of Triggers in Memory Formation

A new study advances basic understanding of the biochemical mechanisms associated with how memories are formed.

This image shows a 3d representation os a synapse in a mouse brain.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·October 27, 2014·4 min read

Synapses Always on the Starting Blocks

Researchers report vesicles have close contact with cell membranes before fusion occurs.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·June 9, 2019·5 min read

Neurons’ “antennae” are unexpectedly active in neural computation

When the soma of specific neurons is active, the dendrites of the same neuron are also active, even when animals are not engaged in a cognitively demanding task.