The Missing Manuscript of Dr. Jose Delgado's Radio Controlled Bulls.

ABSTRACT: Neuroscience systems level courses teach: 1) the role of neuroanatomical structures of the brain for perception, movement, and cognition; 2) methods to manipulate and study the brain including lesions, electrophysiological recordings, microstimulation, optogenetics, and pharmacology; 3) proper interpretation of behavioral data to deduce brain circuit operation; and 4) the similarities, differences, and ethics of animal models and their relation to human physiology. These four topics come together quite dramatically in Dr. Jose Delgado's 1960s famous experiments on the neural correlates of aggression in which he stopped bulls in mid-charge by electrically stimulating basal ganglia and thalamic structures. Technical documentation on these experiments is famously difficult to find. Here I tra

SUBMITTER: Marzullo TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5480854 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature