You may be surprised to learn that the human brain, often studied under the lens of its electrical and chemical activity, ...

Scientists reveal the brain emits faint light that reflects mental activity, opening a new path for non-invasive brain monitoring.

Researchers have demonstrated that catheter-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) can ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by Professor Francesca Santoro and Dr. Valeria Criscuolo from the Institute of ...

To turn on light in the brain, researchers need a few tools. The first one is optogenetics, an established research technique that uses light to activate or inactivate cells in the brain.

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known as fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy), measures how light is ...

To turn on light in the brain, researchers need a few tools. The first one is optogenetics, an established research technique that uses light to activate or inactivate cells in the brain.

“Up to now, no light microscopy technique could do that,” said Danzl. “It was a longstanding goal of our group to build such a pipeline for reconstructing brain tissue.