Blog – Jocelyne Lopez

Wissenschaftlicher Bericht
von André Ménache,
Direktor von

ONE VOICE
und
ANTIDOTE EUROPE

The replacement of non human primates
in brain research

© Septembre 2010

Foreword

Is it possible to avoid primate experiments in brain research?
Here are the opinions of three scientists involved in the field of neurology.

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Dr Aysha Akhtar, medical doctor and neuroscientist:

“Researchers can study human neurology in an ethical manner. Many clinical centers use imaging and neurophysiologic tools to map and monitor the human visual and other neurological systems. Centers such as Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Minnesota State University use functional MRIs, PET scans, and evoked potentials (which record the brain’s electrical patterns) to collect relevant data on human neural processing and anatomy.”(1)

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Dr Marius Maxwell, neurosurgeon:

“The abuse of primates in medical research for Parkinson’s disease lies at the very epicenter of the debate about the scientific relevance of vivisection to human health today… Because human research itself culminated in the technique of deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, one can only conclude that primate vivisection has amounted to an expensive, savagely cruel, and scientifically invalid sideshow. It inhabits a parallel universe of biomedical curiosity if you will, drawing from but contributing nothing to bona fide human scientific discoveries in Parkinson’s disease. All it has done is to reinvent the wheel of Parkinson’s disease research over and over again.” (2)

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Professor Paul Furlong, neuroimaging specialist (at a presentation to the European Parliament in 2008):

“Current neuroimaging techniques such as Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), offer significant opportunities to replace non-human primate experimentation in behavioural neuroscience.” (3).

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Siehe auch Change.org Petition:

Herr Prof. Hans-Peter Thier, beantworten Sie bitte 4 Fragen über den wissenschaftlichen Wert der Affenhirnforschung am Max Planck Institut Tübingen

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Herr Prof. Hans-Peter Thier, beantworten Sie bitte 4 Fragen
über den wissenschaftlichen Wert der Affenhirnforschung
am Max Planck Institut Tübingen

ZUR PETITION….

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