{"id":200382,"date":"2024-11-28T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-model-of-neuronal-circuit-provides-insight-on-eye-movement"},"modified":"2024-11-28T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T01:23:41","slug":"new-model-of-neuronal-circuit-provides-insight-on-eye-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-model-of-neuronal-circuit-provides-insight-on-eye-movement","title":{"rendered":"New model of neuronal circuit provides insight on eye movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-model-of-neuronal-circuit-provides-insight-on-eye-movement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working with week-old zebrafish larva, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues decoded how the connections formed by a network of neurons in the brainstem guide the fishes\u2019 gaze.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-024-01784-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Nov. 22 in <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>, found that a simplified artificial circuit, based on the architecture of this neuronal system, can predict activity in the network. In addition to shedding light on how the brain handles short-term memory, the findings could lead to novel approaches for treating eye movement disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Organisms are constantly taking in an array of sensory information about the environment that is changing from one moment to the next. To accurately assess a situation, the brain must retain these informational nuggets long enough to use them to form a complete picture\u2014for instance, linking together the words in a sentence or allowing an animal to keep its eyes directed to an area of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with week-old zebrafish larva, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues decoded how the connections formed by a network of neurons in the brainstem guide the fishes\u2019 gaze. The study, published Nov. 22 in Nature Neuroscience, found that a simplified artificial circuit, based on the architecture of this neuronal system, can predict activity in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200382","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}