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The Body Electric, 1840s
Jef Akst
| Nov 1, 2014
| 3 min read
Emil du Bois-Reymond’s innovations for recording electrical signals from living tissue set the stage for today’s neural monitoring techniques.
Retina Recordings
Ruth Williams
| Oct 1, 2014
| 3 min read
Scientists adapt an in vivo retina recorder for ex vivo use.
Cortical Computing
Abby Olena, PhD
| Oct 28, 2013
| 2 min read
A study shows that dendrites not only transmit information between neurons, but also process some of that information.
Next Generation: The Brain Bot
Megan Scudellari
| May 29, 2012
| 3 min read
A 30-year-old technique to record the electrical activity of neurons gets a robotic makeover.
What the Brain Hears
Edyta Zielinska
| Feb 1, 2012
| 1 min read
By recording nerve impulses in sound-processing regions of the brain, researchers can recreate the words people think.
Animal Electricity, circa 1781
Jessica P. Johnson
| Sep 28, 2011
| 2 min read
How an Italian scientist doing Frankenstein-like experiments on dead frogs discovered that the body is powered by electrical impulses.
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