New High-Speed Microscope Can Capture Brain Neuroactivity

Our brain contains tens of billions of nerve cells (neurons) which constantly communicate with each other by sending chemical and electrical flashes, each lasting one millisecond. In every millisecond, these billions of swift-flying flashes travel together in a giant starmap in the brain that lights up a complicated glittering pattern. These are the origins of all body functions and behaviors such as emotions, perceptions, thoughts, actions, and memories; and also, brain disorders, for example, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.