The mice forget how to
navigate water mazes they had mastered; they don't recognize signs of imminent danger they had once responded to fearfully.
This intellectual boost was demonstrated by the enhanced performance of the mice during tests requiring them to
navigate a water maze and distinguish between known and unknown objects.
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 a paper appearing online this week in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, scientists who invented the photoswitch therapy and veterinary colleagues at the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) report that blind mice regained the ability to
navigate a water maze as well as normal mice.
Not exact matches
If you, a family member or anyone you know is harmed as a result of an accident on the
water, do not attempt to
navigate the subsequent legal
maze on your own.