Comments on: Stressed Out Lab Rats Become Creatures of Habit http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 16 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Angele Gattuso http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-1199050 Angele Gattuso Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:44:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/#comment-1199050 My husband and i have been truly satisfied which Raymond could deal with their investigations via the tips this individual obtained with all the site. Now it is and also again perplexing to merely offer details that many another people have recently been marketing. We realize we have mcdougal to thank for this. The type of pictures you earn, the easy web site course-plotting, the particular romances you aid to engender ?ê? it is almost everything amazing, and it is producing the boy and us believe that the subject will be pleasurable, and that is amazingly mandatory. Appreciate just about all! My husband and i have been truly satisfied which Raymond could deal with their investigations via the tips this individual obtained with all the site. Now it is and also again perplexing to merely offer details that many another people have recently been marketing. We realize we have mcdougal to thank for this. The type of pictures you earn, the easy web site course-plotting, the particular romances you aid to engender ?ê? it is almost everything amazing, and it is producing the boy and us believe that the subject will be pleasurable, and that is amazingly mandatory. Appreciate just about all!

]]> By: YouRang http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-40477 YouRang Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:00:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/#comment-40477 I'm not sure I'm getting this. It sound like the article is saying that for 2 weeks nobody had to press levers and then after 2 weeks they could press levers or not and yet they'd still get the food. So it sounds to me like the stressed rats in some ways were responding more appropriately. Not saying it was more appropriate--just that this doesn't seem to prove anything. I’m not sure I’m getting this. It sound like the article is saying that for 2 weeks nobody had to press levers and then after 2 weeks they could press levers or not and yet they’d still get the food. So it sounds to me like the stressed rats in some ways were responding more appropriately. Not saying it was more appropriate–just that this doesn’t seem to prove anything.

]]> By: pj http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-40465 pj Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:59:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/#comment-40465 Stressed out rats turn into mice the picture says it all! Stressed out rats turn into mice the picture says it all!

]]> By: RickW http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-40454 RickW Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:10:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/#comment-40454 http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.12-health-rat-trap/ "Alexander has been delivering this message since the late 1970s, when he ran a series of elegant experiments he calls Rat Park, which led him to conclude that drugs — even such hard drugs as heroin and cocaine — do not cause addiction; the user’s environment does. It was a stunning result, one that should have had a seismic effect on drug policy. But, like the report on Canada’s failed drug strategy, Alexander’s research was largely ignored" Habit = a modicum of comfort & security in an uncertain world http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.12-health-rat-trap/
“Alexander has been delivering this message since the late 1970s, when he ran a series of elegant experiments he calls Rat Park, which led him to conclude that drugs — even such hard drugs as heroin and cocaine — do not cause addiction; the user’s environment does. It was a stunning result, one that should have had a seismic effect on drug policy. But, like the report on Canada’s failed drug strategy, Alexander’s research was largely ignored”

Habit = a modicum of comfort & security in an uncertain world

]]> By: chris http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-40450 chris Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:28:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/#comment-40450 ib4 Stressed out lab rats go "postal" on researchers. ib4

Stressed out lab rats go “postal” on researchers.

]]> By: robot makes music http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-40449 robot makes music Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:39:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/#comment-40449 Correct! Correct!

]]> By: ryon http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-40444 ryon Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:26:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/03/stressed-out-lab-rats-become-creatures-of-habit/#comment-40444 Isn't that a picture of a mouse? Isn’t that a picture of a mouse?

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