Mushroom Bodies in Adult Fruit Fly Brain (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Mushroom Bodies in Adult Fruit Fly Brain

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These are mushroom bodies (red), which are the center of learning and memory in the brain, from two adult fruit flies. Normally, new neurons do not appear in the adult mushroom body. UC Berkeley biologists altered neural stem cells to allow them to persist for at least a month in the adult brain, and to give rise to newborn nerve cells (green) that send out axons to other areas of the mushroom body, just like normal neurons.

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Sarah Siegrist/UC Berkeley

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