The flexDrive: An ultra-light implant for optical control and highly parallel chronic recording of neuronal ensembles in freely moving mice

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH 2013, 2013, Pages

  Voigts, Jakob ^a,b   Siegle, Josh ^a,b   Pritchett, Dominique L ^b,c   Moore, Christopher I ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic recording; Electrode array; Electrophysiology; Free behaviour; High channel count; Implant; Long term recording; Mice; Microdrive; Miniaturization; Multi site implant; Multichannel electrode; Optical fiber; Optogenetics; Single unit recording; Single unit stability

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; IMPLANT; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; WEIGHT;

EID: 84875525629     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00008     Document Type: Article

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