What Fruit Flies Can Tell Us About Addiction and Learning

More Than What You May Think

Brandon Long
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readJan 23, 2021

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Learning

Learning and addiction are highly related. If organisms cannot form causal connections between drugs and their source, they cannot form behavior to increase the benefits of the drug. Therefore, examining both learning and addiction in model organisms is in order to solve…

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Brandon Long
ILLUMINATION

Writes about science, politics, philosophy, and the spaces that separates us as as species — and occasionally in story form.