Environment Enrichment: making your rat sexy since 2012

May 16, 2012, 9:11 am by Scientific American: Mind and Brain

DOES environmental enrichment make your rat sexy ? Today, I’m over at Neurotic Physiology examining a paper on whether environmental enrichment drives the lady rats wild, and why that might be the case. I’ve got a few issues with the paper. The data is fine but it’s all in the interpretation. Head over and check it out . [More]

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