Dr Andre Menache about the experiments in Weizmann Institute

[urtismcdona13c]

This vid is popular on Israel

[timothymanzella]

This video went viral on Amman

[noratmedicine]

Everything we know about neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s has been learned from studying patients, their families and their tissues. ‘It is in human tissue that we will find the answers to these diseases’ – Dr John Xuereb, Director, Cambridge Brain Bank & Wolfson Imaging Centre. 

[noratmedicine]

# Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease was pioneered in patients, not monkeys, as its developer makes plain in New Scientist (2457) 24.7.04, p 40.

# In 2003, a senior planning inspector dismissed Cambridge University’s proposed primate laboratory because ‘no national need’ for such research was demonstrated.

[noratmedicine]

Hundreds of drugs for stroke have been developed and tested in primates and other animals, yet all of them have failed and even harmed patients in trials. ‘The stroke community needs to think long and hard about whether these animal models are financially and ethically viable’ – Lancet editorial 2006.

[salmiakrondos]

It is not possible to replace the tracing studies performed on this monkey with PET, MRI or FMRI studies! no way! I am very suprised this man is not aware of this, obviously not a neuroscientist himself. Brain imaging(PET etc.) focusses on brain regions(very large groups of cells), Dye imaging studies is all about single-cell research!

Minimising the use of laboritory animals is a good thing, but try and use some correct arguments!!

[kursk124]

Single neuron studies have already been conducted in humans (Journal of Neuroscience 2007 (14): 3839-44). The monkey researchers have been doing these studies for years with no human benefit

[tmoney2388]

thank you sir

[rebelwithoutastraw]

thank you for posting this as a video response!

[rockinfortheplanet]

This is horrific, where is the empathy for the sentient creatures inside institutions that permit the suffering of animals on a daily basis?

[FalconOfStorms]

I want a cement hat.

[cvfa]

Isn't it amazing that when a human does something wrong I hear people call them an ' animal ' Dear God, I know of no animal that does to others, or his own kind, what we the human animal does - I think of dear Felix while watching this and I can only feel thankful he is now in a better place - and to say how sorry I am that we human animals are so selfish, heartless and cruel - the only good from this ? $'s for the researcher

[neesan1]

Totally unacceptable,