{"id":232151,"date":"2026-02-26T09:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/synchronization-of-behavioral-and-cardiac-dynamics-in-larval-zebrafish"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:19:54","slug":"synchronization-of-behavioral-and-cardiac-dynamics-in-larval-zebrafish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/synchronization-of-behavioral-and-cardiac-dynamics-in-larval-zebrafish","title":{"rendered":"Synchronization of behavioral and cardiac dynamics in larval zebrafish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synchronization-of-behavioral-and-cardiac-dynamics-in-larval-zebrafish2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herrera et al. show that in larval zebrafish, heart rate and engagement in the optomotor response are inversely related following threat. This synchronization emerges via parallel central mechanisms. Directly optopacing the heart also reduces visuomotor engagement but through alternative mechanisms related to reducing blood flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herrera et al. show that in larval zebrafish, heart rate and engagement in the optomotor response are inversely related following threat. This synchronization emerges via parallel central mechanisms. Directly optopacing the heart also reduces visuomotor engagement but through alternative mechanisms related to reducing blood flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232151","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}