Topic > Case Study Nuroscience - 2105

A white light source illuminates the strip of tissue as it peels away from the blade, reflecting a copy of it onto a camera (Friedenberg and Silverman, 2012). The audiovisual is then managed by a computer system to provide a precise three-dimensional reconstruction down to the cellular level. The KESM has the ability to digitize complete measurements of a mouse's brain with a resolution of 300 nanometers within 100 hours. If technologies like this were used to scan the human brain, researchers could record the location and connectivity of each neuron, provided they had an inert but invaluable data set from which to generalize about brain function (Friedenberg and Silverman,