Archive page - 2017
A Neural Circuit Link Between Anxiety, Stress and Altered Eating
Jami L. Milton | December 20, 2017Do you stress eat? Based on biology, it’s no wonder our emotions are so tightly linked to feeding. Imagine when we foraged for food away from shelter and into…
Must-Read Neural Circuit Papers in November 2017
Jami L. Milton | November 30, 2017Every month we pool together some of the most read-worthy papers in neural circuits, and for the month of November, we have another impressive list. Please have a look,…
Inscopix Community Makes a Strong Showing at Society for Neuroscience 2017 Meeting
Dr. Pushkar Joshi | November 17, 2017Meetings such as SfN are an important opportunity for us to connect with members of the Inscopix community at a personal and emotional level. It vividly reminds us that…
Inscopix @ Neuroscience 2017
Kunal Ghosh | November 11, 2017It’s been five years since our very first SfN – New Orleans 2012. I still fondly remember that first SfN. There were five of us, and that was the entire company. We…
Inscopix partners with Charles River to provide neural circuit insights to pharma via contract research
Inscopix | November 10, 2017MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of Inscopix's pursuit to expand the boundaries of neural circuit research, Inscopix has engaged a key…
Must-Read Neural Circuit Papers in October 2017
Jami L. Milton | November 1, 2017October brought with it cooler air and many more amazing neural circuit papers! Three of the papers on our must-read list used Inscopix nVista technology in freely…
Two Blockbuster Papers use Inscopix Tech to Probe the Neural Basis of Sex-Specific Behavior
Jami L. Milton | October 30, 2017How do our brains represent the most basic of social cues, like whether a member of our species is male or female? This is a question two labs have been asking in mice,…
Ed Boyden: Creating Tools and Disrupting Neuroscience
Jami L. Milton | October 25, 2017“I think we ought to integrate the maps of the brain, the dynamics of the brain, and the ability to control the brain into single coherent datasets” ~ Ed Boyden, MIT…
Social Experience as the Sculptor of Conspecific Sex Representation in the Brain
Jami L. Milton | October 19, 2017A mouse’s ability to differentiate male mice from female mice results from neural circuits that are hardwired in the hypothalamus of the brain, or at least that’s what…
Must-Read Neural Circuit Papers in September 2017
Jami L. Milton | October 2, 2017September went by way too quickly, but at least there was plenty of great neural circuit research published in September to read. Congrats to all the authors! There are…