神経細胞ネットワーク解析に向けた局所光刺激・多点電位計測デバイスの開発

抄録

In brain science and psychology, one of the most important purposes of recent studies about neural network, biological circuit in brain, is to establish a method of treatment for the central nervous system disease, such as Alzheimer. Neurons in a neural network is stimulated and controlled by visible lights by Optogenetics methods. In this paper, we propose a microchip integrated micro electrodes, micro lenses, and pinholes. The proposed microchip is capable of stimulating a neural network with two focused lights which have different affection to the neuron, and measuring the electrical reaction of the neural network.