Posted: Mar 25, 2011 7:54 am
Mr.Samsa wrote:@Nats: I agree with Ed Yong's skepticism about the specificity of the effect of serotonin on sexual behavior. Serotonin is linked rather intimately to learning and behavior in general, so I'd be interested in seeing how these mice respond to various other learning tasks. At the very least, I'd like to see stricter controls and more ingeniously designed experimental setups to make sure that it is the serotonin that is affecting the sexual behavior, as opposed to it being a more indirect cause.
Absolutely, mate! If that's how you interpret your observation after creating mice deficient in the sixth-most abundant neurotransmitter in the brain, it's not cool.