A conserved role for sleep in supporting spatial learning in Drosophila
Krishna V. Melnattur, Leonie Kirszenblat, Ellen P. Morgan, Valentin Militchin, Blake Sakran, Denis English, Rushi Patel, Dorothy Chan, Bruno van Swinderen, Paul J. Shaw
This study shows that sleep supports spatial learning in Drosophila, with sleep loss and aging impairing learning, which can be reversed by enhancing sleep.
SLEEP · Sep 21, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience