Abstract:Introduction
Sleep is commonly disrupted in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Despite strong clinical associations between disrupted sleep and other NDD symptoms, we lack an understanding of how these are pathophysiologically related. Drosophila melanogaster exhibit essential characteristics of human sleep and have well-defined neural circuits underlying learning and social behaviors. This represents an ideal system to investigate the mechanistic interaction between disrupted… Show more
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