An implantable neurophysiology platform: Broadening research capabilities in free-living and non-traditional animals.

ABSTRACT: Animal-borne sensors that can record and transmit data ("biologgers") are becoming smaller and more capable at a rapid pace. Biologgers have provided enormous insight into the covert lives of many free-ranging animals by characterizing behavioral motifs, estimating energy expenditure, and tracking movement over vast distances, thereby serving both scientific and conservational endpoints. However, given that biologgers are usually attached externally, access to the brain and neurophysiological data has been largely unexplored outside of the laboratory, limiting our understanding of how the brain adapts to, interacts with, or addresses challenges of the natural world. For example, there are only a handful of studies in free-living animals examining the role of sleep, resulting in a wake-cent

SUBMITTER: Gaidica M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9537467 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature