Tutored by Peter Paletta in Elena’s lab, Lindsey’s learning how to stain and mount brain sections (the stain being for cytochrome oxidase: a marker of neuronal activation). She describes her first slide as “garbage”; but honestly seeing this just made Aileen and I thrilled that this work really is starting!
Lindsey’s going to be seeing if stereotypic behaviour’s predicted by a combination of basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex activity. And because the hippocampus will be obvious in her sections, Aileen’s going to use them too, to assess hippocampal volume as part of her interest in depression-like effects.