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      Novel electrode technologies for neural recordings

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      Nature reviews. Neuroscience

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          Neural recording electrode technologies have contributed considerably to neuroscience by enabling the extracellular detection of low-frequency local field potential oscillations and high-frequency action potentials of single units. Nevertheless, several long-standing limitations exist, including low multiplexity, deleterious chronic immune responses and long-term recording instability. Driven by initiatives encouraging the generation of novel neurotechnologies and the maturation of technologies to fabricate high-density electronics, novel electrode technologies are emerging. Here, we provide an overview of recently developed neural recording electrode technologies with high spatial integration, long-term stability and multiple functionalities. We describe how these emergent neurotechnologies can approach the ultimate goal of illuminating chronic brain activity with minimal disruption of the neural environment, thereby providing unprecedented opportunities for neuroscience research in the future.

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              Fully integrated silicon probes for high-density recording of neural activity

              Sensory, motor and cognitive operations involve the coordinated action of large neuronal populations across multiple brain regions in both superficial and deep structures. Existing extracellular probes record neural activity with excellent spatial and temporal (sub-millisecond) resolution, but from only a few dozen neurons per shank. Optical Ca2+ imaging offers more coverage but lacks the temporal resolution needed to distinguish individual spikes reliably and does not measure local field potentials. Until now, no technology compatible with use in unrestrained animals has combined high spatiotemporal resolution with large volume coverage. Here we design, fabricate and test a new silicon probe known as Neuropixels to meet this need. Each probe has 384 recording channels that can programmably address 960 complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) processing-compatible low-impedance TiN sites that tile a single 10-mm long, 70 × 20-μm cross-section shank. The 6 × 9-mm probe base is fabricated with the shank on a single chip. Voltage signals are filtered, amplified, multiplexed and digitized on the base, allowing the direct transmission of noise-free digital data from the probe. The combination of dense recording sites and high channel count yielded well-isolated spiking activity from hundreds of neurons per probe implanted in mice and rats. Using two probes, more than 700 well-isolated single neurons were recorded simultaneously from five brain structures in an awake mouse. The fully integrated functionality and small size of Neuropixels probes allowed large populations of neurons from several brain structures to be recorded in freely moving animals. This combination of high-performance electrode technology and scalable chip fabrication methods opens a path towards recording of brain-wide neural activity during behaviour.
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                Journal
                100962781
                22270
                Nat Rev Neurosci
                Nat. Rev. Neurosci.
                Nature reviews. Neuroscience
                1471-003X
                1471-0048
                17 April 2019
                June 2019
                01 June 2019
                : 20
                : 6
                : 330-345
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                [2 ]Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
                [3 ]Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
                [4 ]John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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                Both authors researched data for article, made substantial contributions to discussion of the content, wrote the article and reviewed or edited the manuscript before submission.

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                PMC6531316 PMC6531316 6531316 nihpa1023693
                10.1038/s41583-019-0140-6
                6531316
                30833706
                33053ebe-2b69-4cc3-a0a1-dcd33f108a85
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