Methods library · Neurons and physiology
Calcium imaging, photometry and optical recording of activity
Also called GCaMP, fura-2, miniscope, iGluSnFR
Watching neural activity as fluorescence or light changes, from single cells to fibre photometry and cortical maps.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
32 lessons use this method.
Sensory Systems
- Sensory Neurons by Their Genes: the Atlas Era
- Hairy Skin, Stroking and Affective Touch
- Hot, Warm, Cool and Cold
- Itch: A Sense of Its Own
- When Pain Persists
- Vagal Sensory Neurons: The Body Reports to the Brain
- Sensing the Gut: Enteroendocrine Cells and Nutrient Signals
- Forty Kinds of Ganglion Cell
- Computing Motion in the Retina
- One Receptor per Neuron: How Olfactory Neurons Choose
- From Glomeruli to Piriform Cortex
- Taste from Tongue to Cortex
- Combining Senses and Predicting Them