Inscopix Launches nVista™ HD for In Vivo Brain Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice

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Inscopix Launches nVista™ HD for In Vivo Brain Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice

PR Newswire PALO ALTO, California and NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 10, 2012

PALO ALTO, California and NEW ORLEANS,Oct. 10, 2012/PRNewswire/ --Inscopix, Inc.("Inscopix") will announce the launch ofnVista™ HD,an end-to-end solution forin vivobrain imaging in freely behaving mice, this weekend atNeuroscience 2012(SfN). Based on a revolutionary miniature, integrated fluorescence microscope technology developed by Inscopix's founding team at Stanford University, nVistaHDallows neuroscientists to stream live, high-definition videos of large-scale neural activity in awake, naturally behaving mice.

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"The nVistaHDimaging platform for the first time provides neuroscientists with the ability to visualize and study the neural mechanisms that underlie behavior, and how those mechanisms go awry leading to behavioral deficits," said Inscopix CEO Dr. Kunal Ghosh. With nVistaHDresearchers can leverage standard rodent behavioral assays and concurrently image activity in hundreds of individual, genetically identified neurons. The platform offers neuroscientists unparalleled experimental flexibility and enables the pursuit of entirely new scientific paradigms. nVistaHDis USB-compatible and designed to be plug-and-play – no large desktop system is needed and all the necessary hardware and software are included in one compact package.

Through Inscopix's Neuroscience Early Access Program (NEAP), a select number of neuroscientists will receive advance access to the first generation of nVistaHDsuch early adopter is the Lieber Institute forsystems. One Brain Development (LIBD) at Johns Hopkins University. "LIBD is excited to be among the first recipients of nVista HDs related to. Our investigators are specifically interested in using the systems to study neural circuit mechanism the pathogenesis of schizophrenia in mouse models of the disease," remarked Daniel Weinberger, M.D., D irector and CEO of LIBD and a pioneer in the development of novel approaches for the study of brain diseases such as schizophrenia.

About Inscopix, Inc.

Inscopix is a pioneering provider ofin vivoInscopix's mission is to introduce a newcellular imaging solutions. dimension in neuroscience research to enable better clinical outcomes. With the nVistaHDsystem, neuroscientists can now stream live, high definition videos of large-scale neural activity from the brain of an awake naturally behaving mouse. Data sets generated by nVistaHDare unprecedented in scale and scope, and cannot be gathered by state-of-the-art imaging or electrophysiology recording techniques.

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