Inner workings of brain cells revealed

MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed  a way to view and record the neuron activity in the living brain in an automated way. A robotic arm is driven and guided by a cell-detecting algorithm that can record neuron activity faster and more accurately than we can. Tests are being done on living mice. Ed Boyden, a researcher from MIT said, "The method could be particularly useful in studying brain disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, autism and epilepsy..." This could lead to breakthroughs in the future which may help to cure the said diseases or to be able to understand them better.

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