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Insomniac fruit fly mutants show enhanced memory despite severe sleep loss

Insomniac fruit fly mutants show enhanced memory despite severe sleep loss

Insomniac fruit fly mutants show enhanced memory despite severe sleep loss

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published March 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and Stephan Sigrist from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and colleagues.

Serotonin 2C receptor in the brain regulates memory in people and animal models, research shows

Serotonin 2C receptor in the brain regulates memory in people and animal models, research shows

"The neural circuit in the Alzheimer's disease animal model cannot release sufficient serotonin into the vCA1 region that would need to bind to its receptor in the downstream neurons to signal the changes required to consolidate a memory," Xu said.