Rapid Whole Brain Imaging of Neural Activity in Freely Behaving Larval Zebrafish ()

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2017 Sep 21

PMID 28930070

Citations 132

Authors

Lin Cong

Zeguan Wang

Yuming Chai

Wei Hang

Chunfeng Shang

Wenbin Yang

Lu Bai

Jiulin Du

Kai Wang

Quan Wen

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Abstract

The internal brain dynamics that link sensation and action are arguably better studied during natural animal behaviors. Here, we report on a novel volume imaging and 3D tracking technique that monitors whole brain neural activity in freely swimming larval zebrafish (). We demonstrated the capability of our system through functional imaging of neural activity during visually evoked and prey capture behaviors in larval zebrafish.

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