Principal Investigator: Apostolos Georgopoulos

Co-Investigator/Post-Doctoral Associate: Matt Chafee

     This study, possibly the first of its kind, will involve an MEG instrument specifically designed for nonhuman primates.  This non-invasive technology will enable BSC researchers to study groups of  brain cells, and their unique integration and relationships as they interact and communicate with different regions of the primate brain.

      The MEG for primates system will make to it possible to join knowledge and make comparisons from primate MEG studies and findings obtained from direct electrical recordings of the primate brain, with that from noninvasive electrical and magnetic recordings in humans.  

Benefits

     Schizophrenia is an abnormality of cortical systems and circuits.  If we can indirectly study the neural network of the human brain through both MEG and correlated single-cell recordings of the primate brain, we will better understand the affects of this debilitating disease.