Enhanced Learning And Memory Discovered In The Fruit Fly

When fruit flies lack a receptor for the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA), their ability to learn or remember is enhanced, the first time scientists have been able to induce this effect in the insects, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the journal Neuron.”We now know that the neurotransmitter GABA is a neurotransmitter that inhibits learning,” said Xu Liu, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Genetics on December 23rd, 2007