Thomas Recording GmbH

Thomas RECORDING was founded in 1989 by Uwe Thomas, and is the sole manufacturer and distributor of the complete range of equipment utilized for the Reitboeck and Eckhorn methods of multiple microelectrode recordings in the brain. These systems were developed in close cooperation with the department of Applied Physics & Neurophysics at the University of Marburg, Germany, where these methods have been used exclusively for 25 years in the laboratories of Professor Reinhard Eckhorn and Professor Reitboeck. Since becoming commercially available, our systems are also being used by an increasing number of leading U.S., Japanese and European neurophysiological research laboratories.

For example, we fitted out the laboratory of the Nobel Prize winner Professor Torsten Wiesel in New York with our Eckhorn multielectrode-system, the new laboratory of Professor Nikos Logothetis at the Max-Planck-Institute for biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, and the laboratories of Prof. Dr. Vernon B. Mountcastle at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, U.S.A.

The method is probably the most powerful and versatile multi-microelectrode recording technique presently available. The mechanical and electronical equipment, as well as the software, is developed and fabricated on the premises of Thomas RECORDING GmbH in Giessen, Germany.

As a specialist of microelectrodes for physiological and especially neurophysiological research, Thomas RECORDING was the first company in the world to develop 4-cores and 7-cores quartz-platinum-tungsten microelectrodes. These electrodes allow multi-site recordings in an area of about 0.002 mm≤ with 4- or 7-cores independently of each other.