First Brain Recordings.

[Geek-9pm]

First Brain Recordings. Fom Flying Fruit Flies.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2010) — Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have obtained the first recordings of brain-cell activity in an actively flying fruit fly.

The work -- by Michael Dickinson, the Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering, with postdoctoral scholars Gaby Maimon and Andrew Straw -- suggests that at least part of the brain of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) "is in a different and more sensitive state during flight than when the fly is quiescent," Dickinson says.

A paper describing the research appears February 14 in the advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100214143139.htm

[Computer Hope Admin]

Pretty interesting although admittedly over my head. I had to read the description of the picture four times before I really even slightly grasped what was going on.