Japanese Researchers Put Tiny Camera in Mouse Brain

Japanese researchers in Tokyo implanted a tiny camera inside the brain of a mouse to see how memory is formed. The scientists hope that the experiment will not only help humans treat diseases like Parkinsons but will also show us the complicated inner workings of a mouse brain.

Finally.

The experiment uses a cmaera roughly .1 inch wide (3 by 2.3 by 2.4 millimeters) and was implanted into the hippocampus of the mouse’s brain (who could’ve thought that a mouse’s brain can fit an entire hippo! Hey-oh — we’ll be here all night.) A screen will then show a blue light whenever the camera captured memory being recorded by the brain, the memory will then be taken out and played in what will, scientists predict, be a very strange rendition of Fiefel Goes West.

While the experiment can yield a wealth of results, it will also take at least 10 years to get any conclusive ones, meaning, for now, it’s just a tiny camera inside a tiny mouse’s brain.