Tue, 01 Aug 2006

Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders

Remember the old saying "the rats are winning the rat race"? Well, that's not true: they're getting crazy, too!

Or the researchers were offering them Froot Loops when they really wanted Cap'n Crunch ...

Mice that couldn't be dissuaded from the object of their attention by a piece of sweet, crunchy cereal may help researchers find new treatments and cures for human disorders like autism and Parkinson's disease. A psychiatric test for monitoring many human mental abnormalities has been adapted for use in mice, according to researchers at Purdue University, University of California-Davis and Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.

(link) [EurekAlert! - Breaking News]

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On 8/2/2006 06:58:20
Bjorngrímnir wrote

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