Tuesday, June 14, 2011

rat brain surgery!

Today, i watched the brain surgery of a rat for the first time!

Today, at lab, I got to watch as the researcher implanted 2 wires into the rat's brain so that she could stimulate the specific structure without damaging or affecting any other neural areas. The whole process took only about 20 minutes. It was funny watching the groggy rats coming out of anesthesia. Their legs couldn't hold them up, so they looked like they were swimming around the bottom of their cages. Very cute ^. ^

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