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Turning certain neurons on or off in fly brains creates wildly erotic or sexually withdrawn animals, a new study shows. The findings point to new players in a complex circuit activated in the fly brain during courtship. Researchers had long known that a handful of sex-specific neurons must be present in male brains for the first steps of this courtship ritual to commence. Researcher Sue Broughton, of University College London, and her colleagues at New York University and the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, reports the result in the April 6, 2004 issue of Current Biology.