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1Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Neuron
|April 7, 2022
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Voltage imaging promises to unite optical and electrical approaches to accelerate circuit discovery. In this issue of Neuron, Böhm et al. (2022) use voltage imaging to explore the structure and functional dynamics of spinal excitatory interneurons in larval zebrafish and reveal the role of V3 neurons in adaptive locomotor control.
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