{"id":220594,"date":"2025-08-21T04:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/sleeping-flies-that-still-manage-to-escape-shed-light-on-inhibitory-neuronal-networks"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:32:24","slug":"sleeping-flies-that-still-manage-to-escape-shed-light-on-inhibitory-neuronal-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/sleeping-flies-that-still-manage-to-escape-shed-light-on-inhibitory-neuronal-networks","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping flies that still manage to escape shed light on inhibitory neuronal networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sleeping-flies-that-still-manage-to-escape-shed-light-on-inhibitory-neuronal-networks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flies too need their sleep. In order to be able to react to dangers, however, they must not completely phase out the environment. Researchers at Charit\u00e9\u2013Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin have now deciphered how the animal\u2019s brain produces this state. As they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09376-2\" target=\"_blank\">describe<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, the fly brain filters out visual information rhythmically during sleep\u2014so that strong visual stimuli can still wake the animal.<\/p>\n<p>Periods of rest and sleep are vital\u2014presumably for all animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSleep is essential for physical regeneration, and in humans and many animals it is also fundamental for memory formation,\u201d explains Prof. David Owald, a scientist at Charit\u00e9\u2019s Institute of Neurophysiology and leader of the recently published study. It was previously unclear how an organism reduces its response to stimuli sufficiently to be able to regenerate, while still remaining alert enough to respond to external dangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flies too need their sleep. In order to be able to react to dangers, however, they must not completely phase out the environment. Researchers at Charit\u00e9\u2013Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin have now deciphered how the animal\u2019s brain produces this state. As they describe in the journal Nature, the fly brain filters out visual information rhythmically during sleep\u2014so that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}