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Magic mushroom and zebrafish: A new recipe?

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No, we are not talking about a new dish for dinner, but a study representing an emerging research field. Psilocybin research is gaining momentum, and zebrafish behavioral neuroscience research has been exponentially expanding. At the intersection of these two research fields is a recent paper that utilized high-tech video-tracking to detect behavioral changes induced by this psychoactive drug in larval zebrafish.

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Fig. 1: The zebrafish is a translationally relevant model organism for the analysis of psilocybin’s phenotypical effects and the mechanisms underlying these effects.

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Gerlai, R. Magic mushroom and zebrafish: A new recipe?. Lab Anim 53, 91–92 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-024-01350-1

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