Learned helplessness in flies and the roots of depression

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/cp-lhi041113.php

Public release date: 18-Apr-2013
Contact: Mary Beth O'Leary
Cell Press

When faced with impossible circumstances beyond their control, animals, including humans, often hunker down as they develop sleep or eating disorders, ulcers, and other physical manifestations of depression. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 18 show that the same kind of thing happens to flies.

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