Halloween is at the end of this week, but for a group of research mice at the University of Colorado Boulder, the spooky season has been around the clock. A neuropsychology research team at the university constructed a mouse maze similar to a haunted house, where looming predator shadows would induce the fear response in the research mice.
The result was that researchers Dr. Susanna Molas and Elora Williams were able to map out an area in the brain that fires off in response to fear.
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LISTEN: Haunted ‘Mouse Maze’ Leads to Mapping of Fear-Response in the Brain Jack Armstrong
