12-07-20 Anyone who has looked at the jagged（锯齿状的） recording of the electrical activity of a single neuron in the brain must have wondered how any useful information could be extracted from such a frazzled（疲惫的） signal. But over the past 30 years,...

11-07-10 Oh, the challenges of being a neuron, responsible for essential things like muscle contraction, gland secretion（分泌物） and sensitivity to touch, sound and light, yet constantly bombarded with signals from here, there and everywhere. How on earth...

10-01-07 Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly可逆地 shut down brain activity using different colors of light. When targeted to specific neurons神经原 , they could potentially...