Can Male Brains Ignore Food for Sex?

Deciding between feeding and mating is a tough decision for animals, and a discovery reveals that this might ring true even for humans. Researchers have shown that male brains - at least in nematodes - will suppress the ability to locate food in order to instead focus on finding a mate. The results, which appear today in the journal iCurrent Biology/i, may point to how subtle changes in the brain's circuitry dictate differences in behavior between males and ...