Genetic rescue of functional senescence in synaptic and behavioral plasticity.
Donlea JM., Ramanan N., Silverman N., Shaw PJ.
Aging has been linked with decreased neural plasticity and memory formation in humans and in laboratory model species such as the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we examine plastic responses following social experience in Drosophila as a high-throughput method to identify interventions that prevent these impairments.