2022
Volume 22, Number 3/4, pp. 39-41
Exploring neuroscience at the nanoscale
J.J. Ramsden
Department of Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Buckingham, UK
The applications of nanotechnology to neuroscience are reviewed. The main areas of current activity are the miniaturization of the electrodes used to study neurons and the use of nanoparticles stimulated to trigger action potentials in individual neurons, or subpopulations of neurons, in a living brain.