Good afternoon to the coolest of #neuro people! What are your best/favorite #neuropixels headstages for freely moving rats?
We hope to start with neuropixels2.0 soon (multishanks ftw!)
So far I've seen this surprisingly low-tech DIY-ish version https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177890/
This one that looks nice, but seems almost a bit delicate for rats (ours are enthusiastically destructive): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551752v1
And I believe there are the Atlas Neurotech headstages (but only for neuropixels 1.0?)
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@susanleemburg I believe @3Dneuro provide a variant of the first microdrive option you listed. In case you aren’t eager to go the DIY path.
@ChrisWilms23 thanks for the @! @susanleemburg Indeed, we're making the Buskazi lab version for the community (and our own @t1m used it with neuropixels and regular probes) . So far, a bit over 60 labs have received drives from us and the feedback we got was mainly positive.