Sheep Brainwaves

    Studies have shown that sheep's brains have zags of neutral activity, and that pattern is similar to those of sleeping people. The thing is, these spindles have been found in the sheep's brains while they're awake. These spindles have never been spotted in healthy, awake people's brains before. Scientists don't really know what they actually do, but the most popular theory is that they lock in memories during sleep. Jenny Morton, a neurobiologist at the University of Cambridge, studied six female sheep with implanted electrodes that spanned their brains. They collected data over two nights and one day. For humans, changes in sleep spindles have been akin to aging and diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. Studying these spindles over time in sheep may reveal answers about these human disorders. So maybe, just maybe, sheep's brains can be the cure to Alzheimer’s. 

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  1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2020 at 6:34 AM

    This article is absolutely crazy! Who would have thought a sheep's brain could help us get closer to the cure of Alzheimer's disease. When I think about someone curing a disease I just assume they try different medicines, until one actually works. For someone to study a sheep's brain and to figure out it might actually help to cure a disease, I just think that is wild. Do you think this research actually might have cured Alzheimer's disease?

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  2. AnonymousOctober 16, 2020 at 12:20 PM

    I found this article to be interesting. The fact that sheep may cure and help scientist to help figure out human disorders is so crazy yet so exciting. Since the sleep spindles the sheep are having are so similar to aging and diseases, I wonder how quickly the scientists will pursue finding answers and what will they find? Will they find a cure and how?

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