The TD Drive

The TD Drive

While many methods already exist for recording brain activity, such as fMRI, calcium imaging, and cortical electrode implants, there are many limitations to each. Whether it is the inability to be freely-moving, the preference to cortical brain structures, or high...
DeepSlice

DeepSlice

Harry Carey and colleagues out of Simon McMullan’s lab at Macquarie University in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Oslo, OpenBench, and University of Sydney, published their open-source tool, DeepSlice, last September. There is a great need for...
One-Rat Turnstile (ORT)

One-Rat Turnstile (ORT)

Jared Armshaw and Grayson Butcher, from April Becker’s Neuroplasticity and Repertoire Recovery Lab at the University of North Texas, recently shared their open-source apparatus with us. Behavioral testing of rats usually involves removing individual animals from group...
Miniscope-LFOV

Miniscope-LFOV

Changliang Guo, Garret Blair, and colleagues out of the Aharoni Lab at UCLA published their open source large-field-of-view Miniscope in Science Advances in April 2023. Miniscopes (miniature microscopes) are useful for measuring neural activity in freely-behaving...
E-Scope

E-Scope

A collaboration of multiple labs in the Neurology and Neurobiology departments at UCLA published a paper regarding their open-source electrophysiology-integrated mini scope in an eLife paper in April 2023. E-Scope is an open source mini scope that simultaneously...