{"id":173159,"date":"2023-09-30T00:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/beyond-sight-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-brain-wiring"},"modified":"2023-09-30T00:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:25:03","slug":"beyond-sight-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-brain-wiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/beyond-sight-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-brain-wiring","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Sight: Unraveling the Mysteries of Brain Wiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-sight-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-brain-wiring3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Scientists made a novel discovery using zebrafish with a genetic mutation. These \u2018deep-blind\u2019 fish lack connections between the retina and brain yet retain functional brain circuits.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, despite their inability to see, direct brain stimulation through optogenetics triggers normal visual behavior. This suggests that much of the zebrafish brain\u2019s wiring is innate and doesn\u2019t rely heavily on visual experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Scientists made a novel discovery using zebrafish with a genetic mutation. These \u2018deep-blind\u2019 fish lack connections between the retina and brain yet retain functional brain circuits. Remarkably, despite their inability to see, direct brain stimulation through optogenetics triggers normal visual behavior. This suggests that much of the zebrafish brain\u2019s wiring is innate and doesn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}