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> My first thought is someone is going to do these experiments, probably on a prisoner. In the animal model, they surgically altered the animals to have an in
by akira2501 2y ago
> My first thought is someone is going to do these experiments, probably on a prisoner.
In the animal model, they surgically altered the animals to have an injection cannula placed in their skulls, it's obviously hard to target, so you just install it and run the experiment, then after the experiment, you kill and necropsy the animal to see if it was in the right place after all. If it was you can keep those results, if it wasn't, you throw those results away.
Meanwhile the test is putting them on a rotating platform and shocking their feet on certain platform areas. Then waiting for them to avoid it habitually. Then you inject them. Then you see if they still avoid it.
These guys basically know next to nothing about how memories are formed at this point. Their test is so amazingly cruel while being particularly narrow that you can't actually divine anything useful from it. Except maybe more funding to keep shooting in the dark at these animals expense.
- Modified3019 2y agoReminds me of the “forced swim test” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401172/) being used as a proxy for depressive behavior.