https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220428103943.htm

The researcher's experiments in mice were published in Nature Communications on March 22.

"When a mouse's head is restrained for imaging, its brain activity may not truly represent its neurological function," says Xingde Li, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "To map brain circuits that control daily functions in mammals, we need to see precisely what is happening among individual brain cells and their connections, while the animal is freely moving around, eating and socializing."