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Aversive phototaxic suppression: evaluation of a short‐term memory assay in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
11 Feb 2009
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Drosophila melanogaster is increasingly being used to model human conditions that are associated with cognitive deficits including fragile-X syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, sleep loss, etc. With few exceptions, cognitive abilities that are known to be modified in these conditions in humans have not been evaluated in fly models. One reason is the absence of a simple, inexpensive and reliable...
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