Inescapable Stress Changes Walking Behavior in Flies - Learned Helplessness Revisited.

Like other animals flies develop a state of learned helplessness in response to unescapable aversive events. To show this, two flies, one 'master', one 'yoked', are each confined to a dark, small chamber and exposed to the same sequence of mild electric shocks. Both receive these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sophie Batsching, Reinhard Wolf, Martin Heisenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5119826?pdf=render