Say Cheese! Snapshots of the Living Mouse Brain

The human brain is a highly complex system comprised of billions cells, called neurons, that are all interconnected. Normal function depends on effective communication between which requires signals to travel down nerve cell and then over the next it connected to. Several diseases result from impairments in why important study these living brain. Since difficult study, scientists use simpler organisms like mice. To see mouse piece skull replaced with clear glass window. Powerful microscopes can be used capture snapshots neurons deep inside live brains! Clever lasers excite chemical “tags” makes them glow fluorescent light. Join us as we explore inner workings neuron