Philip Bradley
<p>". . the Institute of Physiology in Pisa. My purpose in going there was to learn to use the technique of t<b>he floating microelectrode</b>, with which they were recording the activity of single cells in the brain. I thought it would be very complicated, but it was not. Essentially it consisted of a piece of fine enamelled wire, pushed gently into the brain until the activity of a single neuron was picked up. The other end of the wire was clamped but a loop was formed so that the recording tip was floating and would follow movements of the brain. I learned this technique very quickly and worked with an Italian, Dr A. Mollica, who was Moruzzi’s first assistant. We worked hard, including on Saturdays which was the system in Italy, and we obtained some very interesting results which were published in Moruzzi's journal, the <i>Archives Italiennes de Biologie</i> (Archives of Italian Biology). " Bradley interviewed by Thomas A Ban</p>