Systems neuroscience: A box full of tools to illuminate the black box of the brain

J Simon Wiegert; Marc Spehr; Ileana L Hanganu-Opatz

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002221

Systems neuroscience: A box full of tools to illuminate the black box of the brain

PLoS Biol. 2023 Jul 27;21(7):e3002221. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002221. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Authors

J Simon Wiegert¹, Marc Spehr², Ileana L Hanganu-Opatz³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurophysiology, MCTN, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
² Department of Chemosensation, Institute of Biology II, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
³ Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg Center of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

Abstract

Investigation of brain function has been fueled by an accelerating development of novel technologies and tools. This Perspective looks at the unprecedented neurotechnological progress of the past 2 decades and discusses future strategies to elucidate brain function.

Copyright: © 2023 Wiegert et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brain
Forecasting
Neurosciences*
Technology

Grants and funding

The funders (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: FOR5159 Ha4466/20-1 and SFB 936 178316478 to I.L.H.-O, SPP 1926, WI4485/3-2, 315380903 to J.S.W.; 368482240/GRK2416, 269953372/GRK2150, and 378028035 to M.S., and Horizon 2020: DEEPER 101016787 to I.L.H.-O.) The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.