Deciphering the Adult Brain: From Neuroanatomy to Behavior

The Drosophila brain with an estimated 100,000 neurons provides at once an excellent opportunity todescribe a complex brain in great detail and to identify the genetic and neurobiological basis of a wide arrayof behaviors. Furthermore, the sequencing of the genome with the concurrent identi fi cation of the elaboratehomology of human and Drosophila genes and numerous functional studies have established the highrelevance of Drosophila to understand diseases of the human brain. An overview is provided of availabletechniques to visualize neurons and neural circuitry and to study their function in behavior. Variousresources are listed, and future and emerging technologies are discussed.

ISBN:978-1-61779-829-0

Jaar van publicatie:2012