Sentences with phrase «mice mild electric shocks»

After a while, they gave the mice mild electric shocks to their feet and a blue light flashed in their brains delivered by a fiber - optic cable, implanting the memory that the Red Room was a dangerous place.

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To find out if this impairs learning, her team placed mice on a rotating platform with one section that delivered a mild electric shock.

But in a second memory test, wherein the animals had to learn to associate a dark chamber with a mild electric shock, the treated Alzheimer's mice did not outperform their untreated counterparts.

Mice bred to have a malfunctioning form of CREB, Silva's study demonstrated, did not remember from one day to the next that they had already been taught to navigate a water maze or that they had previously been placed in a special cage where they received a mild electric shock.

In one group of mice, he and his colleagues dosed their mothers with a synthetic compound that simulates a mild viral infection during late pregnancy; when their offspring hit early puberty at about 6 weeks of age, the young mice were exposed to unpredictable stress, such as being restrained, deprived of water, or given electric foot shocks.

In a second experiment, the researchers placed the mice in a staging area where they received a mild electric foot shock.

Researchers used this approach to label memory cells during a fear - conditioning event that involved a mild electric shock to the mouse and then used light to artificially reactive memories at different times.

They herded each mouse into a special cage and delivered a mild electric shock to its foot, leading the mouse to form a fearful memory of the cage.

With some mice, they tested a drug that is known to prevent the scaling down, but the drug appeared to make little difference in the ways mice remembered and avoided a location that gave them a mild electric shock.