New Model of Neuronal Circuit Provides Insight on Eye Movement (IMAGE)

Weill Cornell Medicine

New Model of Neuronal Circuit Provides Insight on Eye Movement

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Zebrafish, photographed with confocal microscope. The brain region that controls eye movement is structurally similar in fish and mammals, but the zebrafish system contains only 500 neurons, making it a good model organism.

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Jessica Plavicki

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