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To favor survival under food shortage, the brain disables costly memory.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 25 Jan 2013
Plaçais Pierre-Yves, Preat Thomas
Abstract excerpt
The brain regulates energy homeostasis in the organism. Under resource shortage, the brain takes priority over peripheral organs for energy supply. But can the brain also down-regulate its own consumption to favor survival? We show that the brain of Drosophila specifically disables the costly formation of aversive long-term memory (LTM) upon starvation, a physiological state required for appetitive LTM formation....
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