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intrepidity

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6. There are memory tests

Reply to napi21 (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 31, 2020, 02:46 AM

Jul 2020

Like, reciting 5 words, person, woman, man...

No, but there are memory tests, like seeing if they can remember where a platform in a swimming pool is, to get out of the water (Morris Water Maze test). Things like that.

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World-first gene therapy reverses Alzheimer's memory loss in mice [View all] CentralMass Jul 2020 OP

Sounds promising. ( n/t ) Make7 Jul 2020 #1

K/R appalachiablue Jul 2020 #2

(Shades of Flowers for Algernon.) Hope it progresses! Guilded Lilly Jul 2020 #3

That would be GREAT NEWS! But I have to ask, how do they tell if a mouse has dementia? nt napi21 Jul 2020 #4

My exact thought. demosincebirth Jul 2020 #5

There are memory tests intrepidity Jul 2020 #6