Fly’s brains can tell you a thing or two about your own

You might think you don?t have much in common with a fruit fly. But studying them could tell us more about human conditions such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) ? from, for example, a motorbike accident or a blunt hit on the head ? which can in some lead many years later to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, an Alzheimer?s-like form of neurodegeneration.