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[News] Caltech scientists find emotion-like behaviors, regulated by dopamine, in fruit flies


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PASADENA, Calif.—Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

 

Their findings, which may be relevant to the relationship between the neurotransmitter dopamine and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are described in the December issue of the journal Neuron.

 

Caltech scientists find emotion-like behaviors, regulated by dopamine, in fruit flies

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Emotional flies?

 

Interesting...

 

Do you think it'll be good therapy for a depressed fly to know that life actually is ****? They should be ecstatic!

 

Freud of the Flies:

 

Patient: I can't take it any more, man...

Freud of the Flies: Don't worry, mate. Life is ****.

Patient: AWESOME!!!

Freud of the Flies: Tell me about your mother...

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