An anonymous reader writes:
MICE AND MEMORY
Tonegawa creates tools to explore the genetic underpinnings of the molecular mechanism for memory. Genetically engineered mice who are missing the brain
enzyme calcineurin were previously shown to have an impairment in short-term, day-to-day memory formation, known as working memory. This kind of memory
also is impaired in schizophrenia patients.
Genetically engineered mice also can show suicide or conspirative symptoms where caged and shown in front of other schyzophrenic mammals. Those
experiments
are perfect for the analisys of the escaping habilities from generation to generation of this tiny mammals, which when the schyzophrenic behavior starts to show up,
they become an interesting inter-discipline object to be tested for survival habilities inside a cage, and of course, those who survive the tests
are hopefully a great 'icon' for the rest of the lab rats.
The article can be found HERE