Such an organization provides certification for your pet after he passes a
set of behavioral tests, ensuring that he has the temperament for the job.
In the course of screening over 180 mutant mouse strains with a systematic
battery of behavioral tests, Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyakawa and his colleagues found that mice with heterozygous knockout of the alpha - isoform of calcium / calmodulin - dependent protein kinase II (αCaMKII) exhibit behavioral deficits and other brain features consistent with bipolar disorder.
In a study now being reviewed for publication, Bookstein and Streissguth looked at the
results of behavioral tests and brain scans of 45 adult men, 30 of them afflicted with either fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol effects, the others not.
After the final stressors were administered, the researchers gave the young mice a
round of behavioral tests and then waited until the mice reached adulthood, at about 10 weeks old, to see if their different upbringings had affected their cognitive abilities or brain morphology.
In summary, the
platform of behavioral tests employed here demonstrate that while routine behavioral paradigms are able to detect neurological and motor function deficits in SOD - 1 versus WT mice as early as 13 - 15 weeks of age, more advanced computer vision systems are able to identify distinctive behavioral patterns and discriminate the phenotype as early as 6 - 8 weeks of age.
Next the team gave the mice a
battery of behavioral tests that required them to poke their nose at panels in their enclosure to indicate which of three panels was a different color than the other two.
Using data from 58 of the 59 infants, the algorithm picked out the brain connections that differ between children with and without autism, and that track with scores on
any of the behavioral tests.
Although Abelson acknowledges that the $ 70 to $ 100
of a behavioral test may seem expensive to the average salesperson, he notes that you spend much more in time and money training a new assistant who doesn't work out.