Friday, August 18, 2017

Week 10 - 8/7/2017

Week 10

This week’s main focus was working on the attention task. Since all of the Templeton project rats have gone through their two training sessions, we have begun to run them on the A-shape program. They need to complete this program 5 times before they can move onto the 50 signal lever program. We also are still finishing up some of cohort 4 training, and because some of them finished we were able to run a few through the figure 8 locomotive test.


I also spent my time this week weighing and sexing newborn rats for the Diazinon study. This study is a pilot study and is focusing on how the Diazinon pesticide affects development. It is really fun to work with newborns because they are really small and cute. They weigh around eight pounds and by the fourth day weigh around twelve pounds. Since they are little, their eyes are still closed and they don't have any fur yet.

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