article_snippet.sent: Graduate students, Paula Haynes and Bethany Christmann, at the university's Griffith Lab focused Graduate students, Paula Haynes and Bethany Christmann, at the university's Griffith Lab research on dorsal paired medial neurons, well-known memory consolidators in fruit flies.
article_snippet.sent: The pair noted, for the first time, that when dorsal paired medial neurons, well-known memory consolidators in fruit flies are activated, the flies slept more, but when Graduate students, Paula Haynes and Bethany Christmann, at the university's Griffith Lab were deactivated, the flies kept buzzing.
article_snippet.sent: These memory consolidators cause the flies to fall asleep, as Graduate students, Paula Haynes and Bethany Christmann, at the university's Griffith Lab begin to convert short-term memory to long-term memory.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Haynes and Ms Christmann said this all takes place in a section of the fly's brain called the mushroom body - similar to the hippocampus in humans, which is where our memories are stored.
article_snippet.sent: The parts of the fly's mushroom body, which is responsible for memory and learning is the same part that keeps it awake.
article_snippet.sent: The hippocampus in the brain, highlighted in red, is where our memories are stored, and where, the scientists believe the process takes place .
article_snippet.sent: Ms Christmann, said: 'It's almost as if that section of the mushroom body were saying, "hey, stay awake and learn this". '
article_snippet.sent: Then, after a while, the DPM neurons start signaling to suppress that section of the mushroom body, as if to say, "you're going to need sleep if you want to remember this later".'