Sentences with phrase «fly brain»

Turning certain neurons on or off in fly brains creates wildly erotic or sexually withdrawn animals, a new study shows.

A pair of neurons — called giant fibers — in the fruit fly brain has long been suspected to trigger escape.

The research may ultimately lead to a complete master plan of the entire fly brain.

WASHINGTON — A new computer - based technique is exploring uncharted territory in the fruit fly brain with cell - by - cell detail that can be built into networks for a detailed look at how neurons work together.

In another group, the disabled gene made it difficult for fly brain cells to reinforce new connections that encode memories.

Although there are more than 50,000 nerve cells in the area of the fruit fly brain responsible for motion vision, the researchers believe that the network is «simple» enough to allow them to understand the circuitry at the cellular level.

The team also pinpointed neurons in the male fly brain that were necessary for the truncated life span.

«Fruit fly brains shed light on why we get tired when we stay up too late.»

She uses a new ultra-fast microscopy technique to record the activity in the whole fly brain and works closely with theoretical neuroscientists to analyze the data and model network activity.

The study uses imaging technology and electrophysiology to understand what happens between neurons at synapses to make sense of how fruit fly brains process odors.

Intrigued by recent findings that neuron firing rates in the regions of mouse and fly brains associated with visual processing increase during physical activity, UC Santa Barbara psychologists Barry Giesbrecht and Tom Bullock wanted to know if the same might be true for the human brain.

As the creatures become more intelligent, they learn to turn up the power and become visible, appearing as flying brains with spinal cords for «tails.»

Personas are modelled on a huge range of demon / god / spirit influences, ranging from cutesy designs like Jack Frost to the gruesome flying brain that is Omoikane.

To see what genes might be involved in this increased aggression, the team used microarrays to look for differences in gene expression in fly brains.

Kenyon cells make up only about 4 % of the entire fly brain and are extremely sensitive to inputs triggered by odors, in which only two connections between neurons, called synapses, separate them from the receptor cells at the «front end» of the olfactory system.

The images above depict the activity of the mushroom body Kenyon cells in the fruit fly brain in response to 3 different odors (vertical axis) in 2 separate tests (horizontal axis) for each odor.

This research, Anderson says, has given his team a beachhead into the circuitry in the fly brain that controls aggression, a behavior that they will continue to try to decode.

Gaiti Hasan's team from NCBS has now uncovered how this happens — the researchers have discovered an integrative circuit of nerve cells in fruit fly brains that allows them to ignore the lack of proteins in their food to enter the pupal stage.

Feeding the flies with UDCA partway through their life slows the rate at which the fly brain then degenerates.

Davis now plans to investigate the precise function of integrins in the fruit fly brain.

This area of the fly brain is termed the mushroom body, and is associated with motivation and learning.

Boozing boosts a reward chemical in the fly brain after sexual rejection, a finding which could inspire treatments for depression and alcoholism

Mapping the estimated 100,000 neurons in a fly brain, and seeing how they interact to control behavior, will be a powerful tool for figuring out how the billions of neurons in the human brain work.

With no SOCE, the wiring process to create a «flight circuit» in the fly brain did not develop — so, why is this important?

«New light sensing molecule discovered in the fruit fly brain: The discovery could help inform future research into degenerative retinal disorders.»

The program has already found some new features of the fruit fly brain, said study coauthor Hanchuan Peng of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va. «We can see very beautiful and very complicated patterns,» said Peng, who presented the results April 9 at the 51st Annual Drosophila Research Conference.

In addition, as with the human brain, the fly brain is compartmentalized into regions that process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the same types of neurotransmitters as humans.

Therefore, a fly brain is a good model for studying decision - making.

But in a surprising find, it appears that in flies all these acts of gallantry are controlled by a single gene active in small clusters of cells in the fly brain.

Keene went even further, pinpointing where, amid the 100,000 or so neurons in the fly brain, the Clock gene acts to regulate the sleeping - feeding interaction: a region of just four to eight cells at the top of the fly brain.

Ultimately, he and colleagues hope to be able to relate their findings in the fly brain with the operation of the brain in mammals.

And if you insert electrodes into the middle of the fly brain, you discover that the electrical activity in the brain changes when flies sleep.

Benzer and Min saw something similar when they treated flies with glyceryl trioleate oil, one of the components of Lorenzo's oil: VLCFA levels dropped, but neurons in the fly brains kept dying.

The gene, called «slowpoke,» controls neuron activity in fruit fly brains — it's so essential to life that embryos die if born without it.

Their end goal is to identify specific populations of neurons in the fruit fly brain that are necessary for emotion primitives — and whether these functions are conserved in higher organisms, such as mice or even humans.

Verification was a result of the combination of state - of - the - art chemical analytic techniques, physiological measurements in the fly brain, and behavioral assays.

Using a combination of molecular biology, neurobiology and behavioral tests, the researchers now show that loss of ATF1 changes the response of the fruit fly brain to a whiff of yeast.

Circled green spots are the cell bodies of two dNPF neurons, one in each hemisphere of the fruit fly brain.

«The ultimate goal of this work is to assign behaviors to neurons in the fly brain,» says senior author Kristin Branson, a computational biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus.

New research by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), published in The Journal of Neuroscience, reveals a set of cells in the fruit fly brain that respond specifically to food odors.

«Mapping behavior in the fruit fly brain.»

APPL is found throughout the fruit - fly brain, but primarily in the so - called alpha - beta neurons that are vital to learning processes and memory.

«We conducted a screen for circadian - relevant neurons in the fly brain and found that cells of the pars intercerebralis — the fly version of the mammalian hypothalamus — comprise an important component of the circadian output pathway for rest / activity rhythms in flies,» Sehgal says.

One hemisphere of the fly brain is depicted.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried have now come one crucial step closer to this «holy grail of motion vision»: They identified the cells that represent these so - called «elementary motion detectors» in the fruit fly brain.

Fly CRF, called DH44, is required for rest / activity cycles and is produced in cells that receive input from the clock cells in the fly brain.

Most of these nerve cells cluster near a region in the fly brain called the lateral protocerebrum, the team reports in the 6 April issue of Current Biology.