by SPIE Noninvasive transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) experimental setup. (a) Placement of two pairs of optical probes on the forehead connected to atwo-channel near-infrared spectroscopy (2-bbNIRS) unit to capture brain activity. (b) Test regimen followed for each participant. (c) Light source, two spectrometers, and probe bundles for 2-bbNIRS measurement. (d) Arrows indicating the right and left sites...
Imagine the brain as a giant switchboard covered with thousands of buttons, knobs, dials and levers that control aspects of our thought, emotions, behaviour, and memory. (You can think of the movie Inside Out if you like). For more than a century, neuroscientists have been methodically flipping these switches on and off, alone or in combination, to try to...
by Nicholas Weiler, Stanford University Illustration of experimental approach to stimulate TRPV1-expressing neurons using tissue-penetrating infrared light and amplifying MINDS molecules. Credit: Wu et al, Nature Biomedical Engineering (2022) DOI: 10.1038/s41551-022-00862-w Imagine the brain as a giant switchboard covered with thousands of buttons, knobs, dials and levers that control aspects of our thought, emotions, behavior, and memory. (You...
by Max Planck Society Blood panels are as individual as fingerprints. Researchers from the attoworld team at LMU and MPQ have now investigated how stable this so-called molecular fingerprint of the blood is over time. Credit: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics The molecular composition of the blood provides information regarding one’s state of health, and...
