Development: better sleep on it, children. Academic Article

abstract

• A new study has identified a neural circuit that is responsible for increasing sleep in young fruit flies. Reduced dopamine signaling to the fan-shaped body during early life promotes sleep and is critical for proper brain development.

authors

• Keene, Alex

published proceedings

• Curr Biol

author list (cited authors)

• Murakami, K., & Keene, A. C.

citation count

• 0

publication date

• June 2014

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

keywords

• Animals
• Dopaminergic Neurons
• Drosophila
• Female
• Male
• Sleep

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.012

start page

• R569

end page

• R571

volume

• 24

issue

• 12

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.012