Recent Advances in the use of Drosophila in Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration

Invited experts provide authoritative reviews of existing theories and new developments

Nigel Atkinson (Volume editor)

9780123870032, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 3 November 2011

312 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.57 kg

"Invaluable reading." --Nature

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology research. This volume reviews existing theories and current research surrounding the movement disorder Dyskinesia.

1. Seizure and Epilepsy: Studies of Seizure-disorders in Drosophila - Louise Parker, Iris C. Howlett, Zeid M. Rusan and Mark A. Tanouye 2. Homomeostatic Control of Neural Activity: A Drosophila Model for Drug Tolerance and Dependence - Alfredo Ghezzi and Nigel S. Atkinson 3. Attention in Drosophila - Bruno van Swinderen 4. The roles of fruitless and doublesex in the control of male courtship - Brigitte Dauwalder 5. Circadian plasticity: from structure to behaviour - Lia Frenkel & María Fernanda Ceriani 6. Learning and memory in Drosophila: behavior, genetics, and neural systems - Lily Kahsai and Troy Zars 7. Studying Sensorimotor Processing with Physiology in Behaving Drosophila - Johannes D. Seelig and Vivek Jayaraman 8. Modeling human trinucleotide repeat diseases in Drosophila - Zhenming Yu and Nancy M Bonini 9. From genetics to structure to function: Exploring sleep in Drosophila - Daniel Bushey and Chiara Cirelli

Subject Areas: Insects [entomology PSVT7], Neurosciences [PSAN], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Physiology [MFG]