Experiment registry

What has been imaged with a miniscope, in what animal, with what indicator, through what optical access — and who to ask about it. Every entry records the details a methods section usually compresses into one sentence: coordinates and their reference point, viral titer and injection volume, how long expression was allowed, lens geometry, whether virus and lens went in together or in separate surgeries, and how long the preparation sat before baseplating.

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Brain regions

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Author-confirmed

Ran an experiment that isn't here? Unpublished preparations are welcome — the registry exists for the details that never make it into a methods section.

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How to read an entry

Every entry carries a curation status banner saying where its values came from:

Extracted from full text: A curator read the paper's methods and transcribed the values. Anything the paper did not state is left blank rather than inferred — a missing field means the source was silent, not that nobody checked.
Confirmed by author: Someone who ran the experiment has verified or corrected the entry. This is the strongest state, and it is conferred by a curator after making contact — never self-asserted through the form.
Community-submitted: Contributed through the submission form and not yet reviewed. Worth following up; not yet a verified record.
Needs review: Flagged as incomplete or possibly inaccurate. Check the source before relying on it.

One page describes one preparation, not one paper. A study that imaged two regions, or the same region in two species, appears as two entries sharing a publication — see Guo et al. 2023, which contributes three: wired rat CA1, wire-free rat ACC, and head-fixed mouse cortex.

Contributing

Unpublished preparations are explicitly welcome, and are some of the most useful entries here — a working recipe that never became a paper is invisible to everyone else until someone writes it down.

Add an experiment — six required fields; everything else optional.
Correcting an entry about your own work, or asking for it to be marked author-confirmed: edit it directly, or raise it at office hours.

The field worth filling in even when the rest is blank is "what was hard about this preparation". Attrition rates, lens clouding, expression that came up too hot, cabling that tangled — none of it survives peer review, and all of it saves someone else a cohort.

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Region	Abbrev	Within
Amygdala	AMY
Anterior cingulate cortex	ACC	Medial prefrontal cortex
Anterior piriform cortex	aPC	Piriform cortex
Arcuate nucleus	ARC ARN	Hypothalamus
Basolateral amygdala	BLA	Amygdala
Cerebral cortex	CTX
Dentate gyrus	DG	Hippocampus
Dorsal CA1	CA1 dCA1	Hippocampus
Dorsal CA3	CA3 dCA3	Hippocampus
Dorsal cortex		Cerebral cortex
Dorsal periaqueductal gray	dPAG	Periaqueductal gray
Dorsal premammillary nucleus	PMd	Hypothalamus
Dorsal striatum	DS	Striatum
Dorsolateral striatum	DLS	Dorsal striatum
Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex	dmPFC	Medial prefrontal cortex
Hippocampus	HPC
Hypothalamus	HYP
Infralimbic cortex	IL	Medial prefrontal cortex
Jugular-nodose ganglia	JNG
Lateral amygdala	LA	Amygdala
Lateral orbitofrontal cortex	lOFC	Orbitofrontal cortex
Lateral septum	LS	Septum
Medial orbitofrontal cortex	mOFC	Orbitofrontal cortex
Medial prefrontal cortex	mPFC	Cerebral cortex
Medial preoptic area	MPOA	Hypothalamus
Motor cortex	M1/M2	Cerebral cortex
Nucleus accumbens	NAc	Ventral striatum
Nucleus accumbens core	NAc core	Nucleus accumbens
Orbitofrontal cortex	OFC	Cerebral cortex
Periaqueductal gray	PAG
Piriform cortex	PC	Cerebral cortex
Prelimbic cortex	PL	Medial prefrontal cortex
Primary motor cortex	M1	Motor cortex
Retrosplenial cortex	RSC	Cerebral cortex
Secondary motor cortex	M2	Motor cortex
Sensorimotor cortex		Cerebral cortex
Septum
Striatum	STR
Ventral striatum	VS	Striatum

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Experiment registry

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