Neural Tracing Methods: Tracing Neurons and Their Connections

1. A Survey of Current Neuroanatomical Tracing Techniques

Floris G. Wouterlood

2. Wheat-Germ Agglutinin (WGA) Tracing: A Classic Approach for Unraveling Neural Circuitry

Sabrina L. Levy, Joshua J. White, and Roy V. Sillitoe

3. Retrograde Tract-Tracing 'Plus': Adding Extra Value to Retrogradely-Traced Neurons

José L. Lanciego

4. Simultaneous Collection of In Vivo Functional and Anatomical Data from Individual Neurons in Awake Mice

Brittany N. Cazakoff and Stephen D. Shea

5. Single-Cell Electroporation for In Vivo Imaging of Neuronal Morphology and Growth Dynamics

Sharmin Hossain, Kaspar Podgorski, and Kurt Haas

6. Practical Methods for In Vivo Cortical Physiology with 2-Photon Microscopy and Bulk Loading of Fluorescent Calcium Indicator Dyes

Stephen D. Van Hooser, Elizabeth N. Johnson, Ye Li, Mark Mazurek, Julie H. Culp, Arani Roy, Rishabh Kasliwal, and Kelly Flavahan

7. Optogenetic Dissection of Neural Circuit Function in Behaving Animals

Carolina Gutierrez Herrera, Antoine Adamantidis, Feng Zhang, Karl Deisseroth, and Luis de Lecea

8. Remote Control of Neural Activity Using Chemical Genetics

Andrew J. Murray and Peer Wulff

9. Generation of BAC Transgenic Mice for Functional Analysis of Neural Circuits

Jonathan T. Ting and Guoping Feng

10. Engineered Rabies Virus for Transsynaptic Circuit Tracing

Jennifer Selever and Benjamin R. Arenkiel

11. Genetic Labeling of Synapses

Carlos Lois and Wolfgang Kelsch

12. Genetic Pathways to Circuit Understanding in Drosophila

Jennifer J. Esch, Yvette E. Fisher, Jonathan C.S. Leong, and Thomas R. Clandinin