what we do
How?
The flies are exposed to vaporized alcohol in clear plastic tubes (right), or boxes (below). For the duration of the exposure, about 20 minutes, they are filmed with a digital video camera, and a computer then analyzes their behavior.
Visual inspection also allows us to score the percentage of sedated flies, as a function of the duration of alcohol exposure.
Together this gives us a quantitative picture of alcohol-induced hyperactivation, and alcohol-induced sedation.
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alcohol-induced hyperactivation
 
alcohol-induced sedation           (movies by Fred Wolf)