CLARITY opens window to brain circuitry, new era for neuroscience - Science Nation

The connections between neurons in the brain are involved in everything we do, and no one’s pattern is the same. Imagine the medical breakthroughs if we understood more about the brain’s circuitry, but a milky opaque tissue that coats much of the human brain has clouded our view--until now. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), neuroscientist and psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth and his multidisciplinary team at Stanford University have developed a new imaging technology that essentially mak