Authors
Graziano Fiorito, Andrea Affuso, David B Anderson, Jennifer Basil, Laure Bonnaud, Giovanni Botta, Alison Cole, Livia D’Angelo, Paolo De Girolamo, Ngaire Dennison, Ludovic Dickel, Anna Di Cosmo, Carlo Di Cristo, Camino Gestal, Rute Fonseca, Frank Grasso, Tore Kristiansen, Michael Kuba, Fulvio Maffucci, Arianna Manciocco, Felix Christopher Mark, Daniela Melillo, Daniel Osorio, Anna Palumbo, Kerry Perkins, Giovanna Ponte, Marcello Raspa, Nadav Shashar, Jane Smith, David Smith, António Sykes, Roger Villanueva, Nathan Tublitz, Letizia Zullo, Paul Andrews
Publication date
2014/3/1
Journal
Invertebrate Neuroscience
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
13-36
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
Cephalopods have been utilised in neuroscience research for more than 100 years particularly because of their phenotypic plasticity, complex and centralised nervous system, tractability for studies of learning and cellular mechanisms of memory (e.g. long-term potentiation) and anatomical features facilitating physiological studies (e.g. squid giant axon and synapse). On 1 January 2013, research using any of the about 700 extant species of “live cephalopods” became regulated within the European Union by Directive 2010/63/EU on the “Protection of Animals used for Scientific Purposes”, giving cephalopods the same EU legal protection as previously afforded only to vertebrates. The Directive has a number of implications, particularly for neuroscience research. These include: (1) projects will need justification, authorisation from local competent authorities, and be subject to review including a harm-benefit …
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