GSBS Student Publications
Title
A neural circuit mechanism integrating motivational state with memory expression in Drosophila
GSBS Program
Neuroscience
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Neurobiology; Waddell Lab; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience Program
Date
10-20-2009
Document Type
Article
Medical Subject Headings
Animals; Appetitive Behavior; Behavior, Animal; Conditioning, Classical; Dopamine; Drosophila Proteins; Drosophila melanogaster; Memory; Motivation; Mushroom Bodies; Neuropeptides; Receptors, Neuropeptide
Disciplines
Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Abstract
Behavioral expression of food-associated memory in fruit flies is constrained by satiety and promoted by hunger, suggesting an influence of motivational state. Here, we identify a neural mechanism that integrates the internal state of hunger and appetitive memory. We show that stimulation of neurons that express neuropeptide F (dNPF), an ortholog of mammalian NPY, mimics food deprivation and promotes memory performance in satiated flies. Robust appetitive memory performance requires the dNPF receptor in six dopaminergic neurons that innervate a distinct region of the mushroom bodies. Blocking these dopaminergic neurons releases memory performance in satiated flies, whereas stimulation suppresses memory performance in hungry flies. Therefore, dNPF and dopamine provide a motivational switch in the mushroom body that controls the output of appetitive memory.
Rights and Permissions
Citation: Cell. 2009 Oct 16;139(2):416-27. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.cell.2009.08.035
Related Resources
Journal Title
Cell
PubMed ID
19837040
Repository Citation
Krashes, Michael Jonathan; DasGupta, Shamik; Vreede, Andrew; White, Benjamin; Armstrong, J. Douglas; and Waddell, Scott, "A neural circuit mechanism integrating motivational state with memory expression in Drosophila" (2009). GSBS Student Publications. 1712.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/1712