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Experimental AblationAleem AshrafDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Sindh.
Methods & Strategies inBiological Psychology
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2 Contents1. Evaluating the Behavioral Effects
of Brain Damage2. Producing Brain Lesions3. Stereotaxic Surgery4. Histological Methods5. Tracing Neural Connections6. Studying the Structure of the
Living Human Brain7. Reference
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3 Experimental Ablation Experiments in which part of
the brain is damaged and the animal’s behavior is subsequently observed are called lesion studies or Experimental ablation.
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All regions of the brain are interconnected, it’s hard to interpret the results of such studies.
Damage to structure X doesn’t for sure affect structure Y.
Evaluating the Behavioral Effects of Brain Damage
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5 Producing Brain Lesions Brain lesions of subcortical regions are
usually produced by passing electrical current through a stainless steel wire that is coated with an insulating varnish except for the very tip.
The heat of the current kills the cell in the tissue.
All nearby cells including the axons of the passing neurons are destroyed.
Called Radio Frequency Lesions.
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Figure 1. Radio Frequency Lesions in rat brain
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7 Producing Brain Lesions A more selective method of
producing brain lesions employs an excitatory amino acid such as kainic acid, which kills neurons by stimulating them to death.
Amino acid is injected through a cannula.
Lesions produced in this way arereferred to as excitotoxic lesions.
Does not affect the nearby axons.
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8 Producing Brain Lesions This selectivity permits the
investigator to determine whether the behavioral effects of destroying a particular brain structure are caused by the death of neurons located there or by the destruction of axons that pass nearby.
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Figure 2. Ecitotoxic Lesion in hippocampus of rat brain
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10 Producing Brain Lesions When we pass an electrode or a
cannula through the brain to get to our target, we inevitably cause a small amount of damage to other areas as well.
Which makes causal inferences implausible.
Sham lesion is produced in the control group to avoid this problem.
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11 Producing Brain Lesions Sham lesion A placebo procedure
that dupli-cates all the steps of producing a brain lesion except the one that actually causes the brain damage.
Sometimes researchers don’t cause permanent brain damage to animals.
The inject local anesthetic to the target area blocking action potentials.
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12 Stereotaxic Surgery The process by which an
electrode or a cannula is precisely located and produces lesions in a brain is called stereotaxic surgery.
Done with an apparatus called stereotaxic apparatus.
For precise measurements of brain stereotaxic atlas is used.
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13 Stereotaxic atlas is a collection of drawings of sections of the brain of a particular animal with measurements that provide coordinates for stereo-taxic surgery.
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Figure 3. Stereotaxic Apparatus
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Figure 4. Stereotaxic Surgery on human brain
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16 Histological Methods Fixing, slicing, staining, and exami-
ning the brain under microscope. These methods are called histological methods.
Fixation: To preserve the tissue from decomposing it is placed in a fixative chemical such as formaline.
To obtain clear view, the blood is drained prior to fixation (Perfusion).
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17 Histological Methods Sectioning: A tissue is then sliced into
thin sections to place under microscope.
Slicing is done with a microtome.
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18 Histological Methods After the tissue is cut, the slices are
attached to glass microscope slides. The slides are then put in various
chem-ical solutions, the process known as staining.
Staining is done to give contrast to the tissues under microscope to make the smaller structures clearly visible.
The most frequently used is cresyl violet.
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Figure 6. Frontal Section of a cat brain stained with cresyl violet
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20 Electron Microscopy Transmission electron microscope
is used to see the small details of the cells such as synaptic vesicles.
Figure 7. Electron PhotomicrographThis electron photomicrograph shows a section throughan axodendritic synapse.
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21 Scanning Electron Microscope It provides the images in three
dimensions.
Figure 8.Neurons & Glial Cells
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22 Confocal Laser Scanning Micro-scopy
It doesn’t require slides. It can work on exposed tissue in living brains
Requires florescent dye for staining cells
Figure 8. Branches of dendrites of a living mouse
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23 Tracing Neural Connections Studying isolated brain tissues is
not enough. It’s important to understand its
connection with other neural circuits.
Tracing Efferent Axons: The output from the tissue of interest.
Tracing Afferent Axons: The input to the tissue of interest.
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24 Tracing Efferent Axons A chemical is injected into a tissue
of interest. Which is taken up by dendrites
and cell bodies and transported through axons to other neurons.
The process known anterograde labelling (moving forward).
After few days the animal is killed and examined under a microscope.
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25 Tracing Efferent Axons
Once we know that a particular brain region is involved in a particular function, we may ask what structures provide inputs to the region and what structures receive outputs from it.
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26 Tracing Efferent Axons The antibody molecules are attached
to various types of dye molecules. The body’s immune system attacks
these antigens. The antibodies attach themselves to
their antigens becoming visible under a microscope.
This way researcher can trace where the output goes from the tissue of interest.
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27 Tracing Efferent Axons
Using PHA-L (kidney protein) for Tracing Efferent Axons
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28Anterograde Tracing Method.PHA-L was injected into the ventromedial nucleus (VMH) of the hypothalamus, where it was taken up by dendrites and carried through the cells’ axons to their terminal buttons. The section shows labeled axons and terminal buttons in the periaqueductal gray matter (PAG).
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29 Tracing Afferent Axons It is also important to know from
where the tissue of interest receives its input from.
The process called retrograde label-ling method (moving backward).
Chemicals that are taken up by terminal buttons and carried back through the axons toward the cell bodies.
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30 Tracing Afferent Axons The chemical commonly used in
this method (fluorogold) is injected into a tissue of interest.
Which is taken up by terminal buttons and carried back through the axons toward the cell bodies.
After few days the animal is killed and examined under a microscope.
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31 Retrograde Tracing MethodFluorogold was injected in the VMH, where it was taken up by terminal buttons and transported back through the axons to their cell bodies. The photograph shows these cell bodies, located in the medial amygdala.
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Results of Tracing
The figure shows one of the inputs to the VMH and one of the outputs, as revealed by anterograde andretrograde labeling methods.
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33 Studying the living brain The living brain can be
examined with: Computerized tomography
(CT scanners) Magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI scanners). Diffusion tensor imaging
(DTI)
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34 Computerized TomographyThe use of a device that uses a computer to analyze data obtained by a scanning beam of X-rays to produce a two-dimensional picture.
The patient has a lesion in the right occipital-parietal area (scan 5).
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35 Magnetic Resonance Imaging A technique by
which the interior of the body can be accurately imaged; involves the interaction between radio waves and a strong magnetic field.
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36 Diffusion Tensor Imaging It can measure macroscopic axonal
organization in nervous system tissues. The computer adds colors to distin-
guish different bundles of axons.
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37 ReferenceCarlson, N.R. (2011). Physiology of
Behavior. (11th Ed).
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