Recent advances in technology are expected to increase our current understanding of
neuroscience. Nanotechnology and nanomaterials can alter and control neural functionality …

Implantable intracortical microelectrodes can record a neuron's rapidly changing action
potentials (spikes). In vivo neural activity recording methods often have either high temporal …

Advancements in neurotechnologies for electrophysiology, neurochemical sensing,
neuromodulation, and optogenetics are revolutionizing scientific understanding of the brain …

Background Interactions between neurons, astrocytes, and microglia critically influence
neuroinflammatory responses to insult in the central nervous system. In vitro astrocyte and …

Neural tissue engineering (TE), an innovative biomedical method of brain study, is very
dependent on scaffolds that support cell development into a functional tissue. Recently, 3D …

Nanoporous (np) metals have generated much interest since they combine several
desirable material characteristics, such as high surface area, mechanical size effects, and …

Neural probes are among the most widely applied tools for studying neural circuit functions
and treating neurological disorders. Given the complexity of the nervous system, it is highly …

To date, a wide variety of neural tissue implants have been developed for neurophysiology
recording from living tissues. An ideal neural implant should minimize the damage to the …

Implantable neural electrodes can record and regulate neural activities with high spatial
resolution of single-neuron and high time resolution of sub-millisecond, which are the most …

As scientists discovered that raw neurological signals could translate into bioelectric
information, brain–machine interfaces (BMI) for experimental and clinical studies have …