Availability of food determines the need for sleep in memory consolidation

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From work in the Sehgal lab, we confirmed that fed 🍔🪰, but not starved flies 🍽️🪰 require sleep for memory consolidation and that different memory consolidation circuitry is used in each case. 🧠 4/19 https://t.co/vrxnOd16iL

Somehow I never tweeted about this paper from my postdoc colleague Nitin Chouhan in @amitaseh's lab! You need sleep to form memories, right? Well, if you're a fly, only if you're fed. Starved flies form appetitive memories in the absence of sleep. htt…

Availability of food determines the need for sleep in memory consolidation - PubMed https://t.co/9tHpcjwivi

An excellent piece of work from Amita Sehgal team! https://t.co/sHIKlI52Nj

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