Fruit fly attention |
I've been blogging about my good friend Bruno van Swinderen and his work a couple of times now. Therefore I'm especially pleased to be able to cover his recent publication in the prestigious journal Science. As is often ...[more] |
drosophila attention |
Posted on Thursday 12 April 2007 - 15:37:12 |
Don't miss our poster on ADHD in flies this afternoon at SfN |
Seriously. This is the craziest science story I've had the pleasure to be involved with. Granted, about 90% of the data I'm going to show is from my friend and colleague Bruno van Swinderen, but that doesn't make it less...[more] |
adhd attention ritalin drosophila flight hyperactivity |
Posted on Monday 19 October 2009 - 15:00:52 |
Even in science, sometimes it really seems there is nothing new under the sun |
In this week's journal club, we talked about an old paper from 1918! "The reactions to light and to gravity in Drosophila and its mutants" by Robert McEwen, in the Journal of Experimental Zoology. As the title says, the ...[more] |
drosophila phototaxis attention decision-making behavior |
Posted on Wednesday 09 February 2011 - 16:19:52 |
Bruno van Swinderen: Attention-like processes in the fly brain |
I was so busy at my two posters that I had almost missed the talk by my good colleague and friend Bruno van Swinderen! Many thanks to Kit Longden for coming and picking me up at my poster. Bruno started with a great ge...[more] |
meeting neuroethology van Swinderen attention |
Posted on Friday 27 July 2007 - 02:31:24 |
Published: Ritalin treats ADHD mutant fly |
Well, the title may be a little 'overcondensed' but it captures our essential results. We have discovered that fruit flies with the well-known memory mutant radish exhibit symptoms that are reminiscent of ADHD (attention...[more] |
radish Drosophila ADHD attention ritalin |
Posted on Thursday 21 January 2010 - 17:32:25 |