Laboratory that aims to understand the function of the cortical microcircuit by reverse-engineering of the cortical microcircuit using the mouse neocortex in vitro and in vivo as their experimental preparations. The techniques applied are electrophysiology, anatomy, and a variety of optical methods, including infrared-DIC, voltage- and ion-sensitive dye imaging with confocal, two-photon and second harmonic microscopy. They also use laser uncaging, biolistics, electroporation, electron microscopy and numerical simulations, and make extensive use of genetically modified mouse strains. They focus is on two major questions: (1) What is the function of dendritic spines? (2) What are the multicellular patterns of activity under spontaneous or evoked activation of the circuit? Resources include: * Cell Reconstructions: Cell Database, PDF Images, .DAT Files * Circuit Diagrams: Full Circuit Diagram, Inhibitory Circuit Diagram, Excitatory Circuit Diagram, Simplified Circuit Diagram, Layer to Layer Simplified Circuit, Circuit diagram references

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