For the first time, Garret Stuber, PhD, imaged activity patterns of individual brain cells in freely moving mice to link specific basic behaviors to particular neurons.
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Garret Stuber PhD, used new deep-brain imaging techniques to link the activity of individual, genetically similar neurons to particular behaviors of mice. His lab discovered that as one neuron was activated when a mouse searched for food a nearly identical neuron next to it remained inactive until the mouse began to eat.
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