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Charles W. Scouten
Ph.D. – Innovation Manager Leica Biosystems
Charles Scouten, Product Specialist, MNL, Biosystems Division, Richmond, IL, was born in Eckelson, North Dakota, USA. He acquired his Ph.D from SUNY Binghamton in 1980 with a dissertation entitled “Location of Neurons Mediating Androgen’s effect on Copulation, Urine Marking, and Body Weight”.
Charles Scouten is currently managing the neuroscience research instruments including the line of stereotaxic instruments and related products developed by him under eight Small Business Innovative Research Grants he wrote. He joined Leica Microsystems with the Coretech Holdings Acquisition in 2007. He was a founding partner in MyNeurolab.com, partly owned by Coretech Holdings.
Charles W.'s Published Pieces
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Editorials articleVarying the approach angle in stereotaxic surgery can overcome the conflict between positional accuracy and interpretability. Fortunatly modern computer controlled stereotaxic instrumets make this possible.
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Tutorials articleTo prepare biological tissue for observation under a microscope, the tissue is usually cut in thin slices. Most biological tissue is too soft to cut; the knife would push into it and compress it, even if the cutting edge was very sharp. Therefore, the tissue is either frozen and sectioned…
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Editorials articleTogether with a suitable manipulator and oriented head holder, brain maps can be used to position probes at a preplanned site in the brains of several rodents. The instrument for moving a probe to a given coordinate in space – inside the brain – is a stereotaxic instrument.
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Editorials articleBrain damage from football, improvised explosive devices, and childhood falls has spurred a surge of funding for research on impact brain damage. Damage seems to result in slow growth of tangles of Tau proteins at the damaged sites, but behavioral changes due to the damage may not appear…