Techniques

Awake, behaving rodents, as well as anesthetized and in vitro preparations, are used as a part of our ongoing research.  

Our technical expertise includes:

• intracellular recording
• in vivo multisite extracellular recording
• design and fabrication of micro electrode arrays
• juxtacellular staining with paraformaldehyde fixable lipophilic dyes
• intracortical electrical, pharmacological, and optical (optogenetic) microstimulation
• brain bow labeling
• viral expression and tracing
• 3D histology including tissue clearing and immunochemistry analytical and numerical methods for data analysis
• single cell and network modeling
• synaptic conductance estimation
• simple behavioral test by rodents
• treadmill locomotion
• video monitoring and analysis of animal behaviors