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Decoding Post-Ictal Silence: Synaptic Dynamics in Larval Zebrafish Seizure Models
A new study in Brain Communications, published mid-September, uses dynamic causal modelling in larval zebrafish to…
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WHOLISTIC Imaging Platform Tracks Neural and Organ Signaling in Living Zebrafish
WHOLISTIC, as summarized by The Times of India and the Nature index entry, is positioned as a whole-organism imaging…
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New Insights into VTA Dopamine Neurons Challenge Traditional Neural Circuit Models
The Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute pulled together a conference at the Anschutz campus this…
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Maternal Inflammation as a Hidden Variable in Neural Circuit Development
The core of this work, as reported by Medical Xpress, suggests that maternal inflammation during pregnancy may have a…
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Securing NIH Funding for Integrative Neural Circuit Research: The iBCP Mechanism
You've mapped your cells, you've nailed your calcium signals at sub-second resolution, and your behavioral assay is…
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How Zebrafish Motoneurons Rewire to Master Coordinated Swimming
According to work from Professor Tuan Bui's lab at the University of Ottawa, the difference between those jerky early…
Calcium imaging systems for zebrafish: choosing the right setup
The most expensive mistake in zebrafish calcium imaging is not buying the wrong objective. It is building a system that…
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How Zebrafish Spinal Circuits Orchestrate Collective Schooling Behavior
If you've ever watched a tight shoal of zebrafish pivot as one and wondered who's actually calling the cues, a fresh…
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Salk researchers isolate specific neurons controlling complex social behaviors
According to News-Medical, Salk Institute researchers have built a genetic toolkit that finally lets you pull apart the…
Art Institute of Chicago Tickets: Which Option Fits Your Visit?
The wrong Art Institute of Chicago ticket is rarely a dramatic mistake. More often, it is a small piece of…
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High-Speed 3D Imaging System Maps Seizure Propagation in Zebrafish Brains
If you've ever stared at a 2D seizure trace in your larval zebrafish prep and thought, "I'm sure this thing is…
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Mapping Whole-Brain Responses to Nutrient Intake in Larval Zebrafish
If you've ever tried to pin down whether that one brain region you love is actually doing what you think it's doing…
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Mapping the Neural Circuits That Govern Our Sense of Agency
According to a new study from the University of Oxford combining fMRI and TMS, researchers have fingered two…
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Why Climate Neuroscience Must Become a Core Pillar of Zebrafish Research
The Transmitter is running a piece that should make every zebrafish PI sit up and pay attention: neuroscientists are…
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How Estrogen Shifts Neural Architecture and Impacts Experimental Data
News-Medical is flagging a new study this week with a headline that should make every bench scientist sit up straight…
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Real-Time 3D Imaging of Seizure Activity in Zebrafish Larvae
You know that sinking feeling when you're trying to catch a seizure wave sweeping through a larval brain and your…
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Internal Developmental Clocks Drive Brain Organoid Maturation
A new finding from NIH-funded researchers is forcing a parallel conversation in the organoid world, and the…
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Neural Flexibility: How Brain Circuits Reuse Populations for Sensory and Motor Tasks
The MIT group behind it, led by postdoctoral researcher Yuma Osako, has produced what outlets like Medical Xpress and…
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How Early Visual Exposure Rewires Zebrafish Retinal Circuits and Behavior
According to The Transmitter, a zebrafish study published in Neuron is finally putting numbers on a hunch many of us…
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Optical Tweezers Bypass Speakers to Control Zebrafish Heart Rates via Otoliths
According to ScienceAlert, a team led by physicist Xiaoshuai Liu of Guangzhou University just published a workaround…
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The Funding Gap: Why Commercial AI Capital Is Outpacing Basic Neuroscience Research
According to reporting from The Good Men Project, Nvidia pulled in roughly $500 billion for LLMs and robotics while the…
Zebrafish Behavior Tracking Software: Selection Guide
The tracking software works beautifully until the assay starts. Then the larvae disappear into glare, a stimulus change…
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FlatMux Platform Overcomes Two-Photon Imaging Limits for Zebrafish Neurobiology
A new platform called FlatMux, described in Nature Methods by Alipasha Vaziri's group at Rockefeller and reported by…
Zebrafish agarose mounting: a step-by-step imaging plan
A live zebrafish brain is easy to image only after it stops moving. That is the bottleneck. If the larva drifts, bends…
Zebrafish light-sheet imaging: 4 phototoxicity fixes
A larval zebrafish at 48 hours post-fertilization presents an imaging scientist with a quiet paradox: the photons…
Light-sheet illumination setups for zebrafish brain imaging
A light-sheet setup can give you a remarkably clean view of neural activity across a larval zebrafish brain—until the…
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Bridging the Gap: How New Mouse-Marmoset Brain Maps Advance Zebrafish Research
So when News-Medical flagged a new cross-species map linking mouse and marmoset brain regions, my first thought was…
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Mapping V1 Spinal Interneurons to Decode the Neural Control of Locomotion
If you've ever tried to untangle which spinal interneuron subtype is actually doing the thing your locomotor assay is…
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Integrating Engineering, Neuroscience, and AI to Advance Brain Research
According to the University of Santo Tomas, RCETS Director and BRAIN Lab Principal Investigator Asst.
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How Hippocampal Theta Sweeps Enable Neural Planning for Future Navigation
According to Medical Xpress, two research teams from Cornell University and University College London have identified…
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Rethinking Carbohydrate Metabolism in Early Neural Network Assembly
According to News-Medical, new research is putting carbohydrates back on the table as a meaningful player in early…
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New 3D Human Brain Tissue Model Advances Alzheimer’s Research
По данным LMU Klinikum, команда Dominik Paquet разработала воспроизводимую трёхмерную модель человеческой мозговой…
Larval zebrafish motor recovery after spinal cord injury
A mechanical lesion in a three-day-old zebrafish larva closes within roughly forty-eight hours. Within several days…
Zebrafish behavior tracking: 4 open-source software tools
A zebrafish behavior assay can produce thousands of frames in a single session, but raw video is not yet a measurement…
Zebrafish immobilization: choosing the right imaging method
Your calcium movie looks clean until you ask the uncomfortable question: are those neural signals from the larva, or…
Zebrafish brain registration: a guide to Z-Brain mapping
A confocal stack can look perfect and still be analytically unusable. Fluorescent reporters are firing across the optic…
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How Zebrafish Brains Reveal the Universal Logic of Sensory Processing
A new study published in Science, as reported by Medical Xpress, gives us something better than commiseration: it maps…
Zebrafish GCaMP Lines: Choosing the Best Fit for Your Lab
You can have a beautiful zebrafish brain movie, a stable preparation, and a perfectly healthy-looking larva—and still…
Light-sheet zebrafish imaging: from mounting to data
A light-sheet zebrafish brain protocol can fail before the microscope ever starts collecting data. The usual culprit is…
Zebrafish brain imaging: 5 ways to prevent motion artifacts
During a fast volumetric calcium scan, a larval zebrafish twitches — a reflex adjustment, a momentary flex in a quiet…