This work has been around for a couple years- my wife (biology dept.) supervised an honors thesis on it a couple years ago: "Ultrasonic vocalizations in rats as an assessment of stress" or some such was the title. Neat stuff. Patrick Patrick O. Dolan, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 973-408-3558 [email protected]
>>> Deborah S Briihl <[email protected]> 2/24/2010 10:17 AM >>> This morning, in my mailbox, I found an ad from WW Norton Publishing on books related to Interpersonal Neurobiology. One of the books is authored by Jaak Panksepp, who, according to the ad, is famous for coining the term affective neuroscience AND his popular research on laughter in rats. I had to see this for myself, so I look this up and, yes, this is what he is claiming to have discovered. http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/what-happens-when-you-tickle-a-rat-see-for-yourself/ Apparently, when tickling rats, the rats make a repeated 50 Khz tone that we have been unable to hear (so, that's why we have never discovered this before), which is laughing (?). Attempts to publish this in Nature were rejected. But, the article that was submitted is included here as well. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=512I3JZzxEMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA231&dq=jaak+panksepp+tickling+rats&ots=PnFlGDRX1y&sig=WkCKl91AFhEZl1hMZvyyHTZNoWA#v=onepage&q=jaak%20panksepp%20tickling%20rats&f=false ---------------------------------- Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University 229-333-5994 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=839 or send a blank email to leave-839-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
