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Editorial
. 2025 Jan;67(1):4-5.
doi: 10.1111/dgd.12951.

Understanding disorders of the human nervous system: How fish models reveal disease mechanisms from single molecules to behavior (part 2)

Christina Lillesaar  1 , William Norton  2 , Daniel Liedtke  3 , Sachiko Tsuda  4
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Editorial

Understanding disorders of the human nervous system: How fish models reveal disease mechanisms from single molecules to behavior (part 2)

Christina Lillesaar et al. Dev Growth Differ. 2025 Jan.

Abstract

The usefulness of zebrafish for understanding the human nervous system is exemplified by the articles in part 1. The virtual special issue part 2 not only covers more work using this well-established species, but also highlights that other fish species may serve as alternative or more appropriate models, due to unique biological or evolutionary characteristics, to explore genetic and molecular mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

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