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Tales Lobosco

If you are using RV environments, whats the real need to use rodents? Is a specific task that can't be made with humans?

Anne Le Gall

Yes, We can't perform that in humans. The idea is to perform a cognitive task under specific conditions involving genetic manipulations and to record simultaneously the neural activity. That's why we need an animal models .