Snapshots in Neuroscience

By SfN Staff
April 25, 2024

Two images of tree shrew retina captured with in vivo optical coherence tomography and ex vivo confocal imaging reveal densely packed, vertically elongated, and stratified axon bundles that are more like axon bundles in humans than in mice.

By SfN Staff
February 15, 2024

A maximum intensity projection image of a sagittal mouse brain slice captured using confocal microscopy.

By SfN Staff
January 4, 2024

This image shows the cellular layers of an adult mouse retina, stained for markers of amacrine cells and type 3b bipolar cells.

By SfN Staff
December 14, 2023

Confocal image of the hippocampus showing somatostatin inhibitory neurons (green).

image showing a reconstructed drawing of photoreceptor
By SfN Staff
October 19, 2023

This image shows 3D reconstructions of Little skate photoreceptor terminals (orange) and postsynaptic partners (yellow and blue) obtained from serial block-face electron microscopy data.

By SfN Staff
September 14, 2023

Confocal image of a brain section containing the somatosensory (barrel) cortex from a transgenic mouse.

By SfN Staff
July 27, 2023

Green cells in this image are neurons distributed in the superficial region of the cerebral neocortex at postnatal day 9 in a heterozygous mutant mouse of Dab1.

By SfN Staff
June 15, 2023

A composite of 5 images captured following each of 5 rounds of labeling and reprobing for a total of 12 mRNA transcripts and neuronal marker.

By SfN Staff
March 2, 2023

This image shows the inking response from a marine sea slug, Aplysia california, during sensitization training.

By SfN Staff
January 5, 2023

The image shows a clarified, 1-mm-thick sagittal section of whole brain from a transgenic mouse expressing a fluorescent reporter for caspase-3/7 activity.