Tiny Lights in the Brain's Black Box
By Madeline Klinger, Markita Landry
Carbon nanotubes can image dopamine and other neuromodulators implicated in Parkinson’s, depression, and other currently incurable diseases.
Carbon nanotubes can image dopamine and other neuromodulators implicated in Parkinson’s, depression, and other currently incurable diseases.
Over the past two centuries, human understanding of the brain and its inner workings has grown dramatically. We have advanced from figuring out how to visualize isolated neurons to developing drugs to treat a variety of psychiatric and neurological diseases.
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