One reason that I have some small insight into what is likely going on in Jazz Jennings’ hypothalamus is that I was a research assistant to a person who was doing experiments on the brains of inbred lab mice, and in the process, I learned quite a bit. One thing I helped with was physically marking out the hypothalamus with a marker on slides of mouse brain cross section, in an attempt to quantify differences in size and shape which could then be correlated with data on the rat’s learning behavior as well as the known inbred rat genetics. By today’s standards, this was a crude technology, but 20 years ago, this was cutting edge. I am no expert in neurogenetics and neuropharmacology, like he is (PhD+postdoc), despite my expertise in other aspects of brain and behavior. But I know a few things.
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