Electrical activity early in fruit flies’ brain development could shed light on how neurons wire the brain

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 10:20 in Biology & Nature

Neurons somehow know which of their neighbors to connect with and which to avoid in the crowded environment of the central nervous system. But how? Using fruit flies, neuroscientists from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA observed that neurons displayed periodic bursts of electrical activity early in brain development, when the larva is still developing. […]

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