Why I couldn't focus is Physiology lab

[CuteJill143]

Ok so my Physio lab professor wanted us to make up a crime scene and use this special computer program called biopac. It measures the heart rate, breathing and the galvanic skin response. This was going to be a lie detector test, and In my head all I was thinking about was an interrogation. They say lie detectors can detect deception because we are known to let out adrenaline when we lie. I had to be the one ASKING the questions to a pretend suspect. My friend Will was in another group and to make things worse inside my head, my professor chose him to also ask questions and Will goes "YES! I AM THE INTERROGATOR!!!!!" great. I became so uneasy. Oh I can't look at biology the same or the way Will said the word "interrogator" I can't escape tickling especially since I might specialize in neuroscience. There are case studies about tickling...

 

[50greg]

Ok so my Physio lab professor wanted us to make up a crime scene and use this special computer program called biopac. It measures the heart rate, breathing and the galvanic skin response. This was going to be a lie detector test, and In my head all I was thinking about was an interrogation. They say lie detectors can detect deception because we are known to let out adrenaline when we lie. I had to be the one ASKING the questions to a pretend suspect. My friend Will was in another group and to make things worse inside my head, my professor chose him to also ask questions and Will goes "YES! I AM THE INTERROGATOR!!!!!" great. I became so uneasy. Oh I can't look at biology the same or the way Will said the word "interrogator" I can't escape tickling especially since I might specialize in neuroscience. There are case studies about tickling...

Case studies??

 

[TangerineTicklee]

((drool/blush/shiver))

O.O

 

[Sandisk444]

ya same, there are some words that whenever i hear them the first thing i think about is tickling. i can't look at electric toothbrushes the same ever again either ahaha

 

[deadlywiffeathr]

I'm studying neuro atm aswell 😀 We did a prac on somatosensation the other week and I was volunteered by my research group to be the guinea pig for all experiments . 50% of them involved being blindfolded and lightly touched or guessing what objects were at different locations, it took everything I had not to burst out laughing each time. It tickled so bad! 😛

 

[P_Bustleton]

I hope someone from this forum goes on to do a PhD in neuroscience. There's so much about tickling I want to know...
The fMRI machines are much better than they were ten years ago, when the last major tickling study was published.

There are only 97 hits for the word "tickling" on PubMed, and most aren't about tickling. Jill and deadly, someday you'll add to that count, I hope! (If you end up curing Alzheimer's instead I won't be too disappointed.)

But here's one very interesting article:

Tickling rats makes their brains grow! But it only works on the ones that like to be tickled, not on rats that don't.

Here's an excerpt (those at universities can probably access the whole thing):

Animals were tickled by a trained experimenter for 10 min on 5
consecutive days in the home cage during the light phase under
dim red light in the absence of other animals. Tickling consisted of
initial finger movements across the back, focusing on the neck,
followed by rapidly turning the rat over on the back with rapid
alternating finger movements on the ventral surface (Mällo et al.,
2007; Panksepp and Burgdorf, 2000, 2003; Schwarting et al.,
2007). Tickling phases (total duration 4.5 min) were intermitted by
phases without stimulation (total duration 3.0 min) and phases
where the animal was allowed to chase the experimenter’s hand
or where the animal was gently chased by the experimenter (total
duration 2.5 min), resembling play behavior in juvenile rats (Knut-
son et al., 1998). The experimenter attempted to minimize aver-
sive 22-kHz-calls and to maximize appetitive 50-kHz-calls, which
he heard in a down-sampled manner in real-time via headphones.

 

[TheTickleMonster]

I'm studying neuro atm aswell 😀 We did a prac on somatosensation the other week and I was volunteered by my research group to be the guinea pig for all experiments . 50% of them involved being blindfolded and lightly touched or guessing what objects were at different locations, it took everything I had not to burst out laughing each time. It tickled so bad! 😛

you should have let out the laughter.. more people need to know how awesomely ticklish you are so they can gang up on you and tickle you 😛

 

[Maestro1874]

Uh Oh!!! DO they give extra credit??