A Teaching Aside The other day my wife and I were reminiscing about our time doing animal research and she was describing my animals’ behaviors while running different experiments. We looked at each other and she suggested the following blog post would be fun to write. I thought it would be interesting to explain a … More Insights on Behavioral Management from Animal Research
Why Haven’t They Done That Yet? This is going to be a rather short post. In fact, this post exists only to solicit feedback from all of you that read this blog to help me improve something I have been working on. So…What have I been up to? A substantial portion of my special education … More How to mainstream special education students…
A Personal Aside I received some great news today that officially marks my exit from academics. I was offered and accepted job as a para-educator working with children at a range of ages with autism at a local elementary school. This definitely will not be a glamorous job, but I feel like it is an … More On to a new adventure…
I am excited about a new set of methods articles that appeared in Nature Methods this week. My excitement stems from the fact that these papers form a relatively comprehensive collection of protocols for using the Bussey/Saksida touchscreen system. In my opinion, these protocols should raise the quality of behavioral research in rodents using touchscreen technology to a new level. … More Touchscreens Done Right!
So today’s post was inspired by a tweet I saw routing me to a story in ABC news pointing out a study done in one of the mouse models of Down Syndrome. In this study, the researchers made a single injection into Ts65Dn mice that resulted in increased cerebellar growth and some normalization of the behavioral phenotype, at least pertaining to hippocampus function. … More Mouse Disease Models Need Better Behavioral Tasks
Why Haven't They Done That Yet? 