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Branch-specific plasticity of a bifunctional dopamine circuit encodes protein hunger
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5/10/2017 3:48:00 PM
Using fruit flies, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a specific and very small set of brain cells—dubbed dopamine wedge neurons—responsible for driving the insects' food preferences toward what they need, rather than what they like.
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