He’s built a smarter mouse and taken a snapshot of a memory in his efforts to decode the brain.
“We are looking at the software code that runs the brain machine,” said Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University. Answering questions like how a memory forms and what it takes to conjure it up will provide the kind of objective biomarkers needed to better diagnose and treat debilitating brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia, he noted. “(Doing otherwise would be) like trying to diagnose and treat diabetes if you didn’t know it had anything to do with insulin and blood glucose.”
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