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To Favor Survival Under Food Shortage, the Brain Disables Costly Memory

To Favor Survival Under Food Shortage, the Brain Disables Costly Memory

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To Favor Survival Under Food Shortage, the Brain Disables Costly Memory

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To Favor Survival Under Food Shortage, the Brain Disables Costly Memory

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United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2013-01, Vol.339 (6118), p.440-442

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English

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United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

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 starva...

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To Favor Survival Under Food Shortage, the Brain Disables Costly Memory

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1808124767

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1808124767

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.1226018

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