Could flies help us understand brain injuries?

Lunatic laboratories discussing it here:
https://loonylabs.org/2016/05/11/flies-brain-injuries/

The research it is based off of here:
Barekat, A., Gonzalez, A., Mauntz, R., Kotzebue, R., Molina, B., El-Mecharrafie, N., Conner, C., Garza, S., Melkani, G., Joiner, W., Lipinski, M., Finley, K., & Ratliff, E. (2016). Using Drosophila as an integrated model to study mild repetitive traumatic brain injury Scientific Reports, 6 DOI: 10.1038/srep25252