Mapping Cavefish Brains (VIDEO)

Florida Atlantic University

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Video demonstrates the behavioral and neuroanatomical evolution in larval A. mexicanus using whole-brain imaging of circuits associated with sleep and feeding. Researchers also utilized whole-brain pERK neural activity imaging, which reveals altered landscape of brain activity.

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Florida Atlantic University

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