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Showing posts with label brain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brain. Show all posts
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Ruminations of a dog scientist on a 96-well plate

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I've been doing a lot of bench work in the laboratory lately. This involves filling the tiny little wells on a plate with my ingredients...
Monday, January 11, 2016

The future of behavior medication?

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We don’t actually know how behavior medications work. We know how they change the operations of cells — for example, we know facts like “t...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Contexts and cues: the reactive dog brain

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A dog on leash, seeing another dog, explodes into a fury of barking and lunging. Reactive dogs, dogs who respond with arousal or aggressi...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Brain regions and their functions

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[Note: this infographic is intended for use in my online class, The Canine Brain: From Neurons to Behavior , which starts tomorrow (M...
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Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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