This results *are* incomplete science, in that they were presented at a conference American Physiology Society. The scientists themselves might not have any responsibility for the press coverage - i.e., other scientists acknowledge that data presented at conferences is interesting but not peeer reviewed. The news media, on the other hand makes no such distinction...
An EEG will be marginally useful - you don't care what's going on during the metabolic manipulation - what will be useful is markers of toxicity (i.e., cell death, stress), and long term effects on the animals.
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This results *are* incomplete science, in that they were presented at a conference American Physiology Society. The scientists themselves might not have any responsibility for the press coverage - i.e., other scientists acknowledge that data presented at conferences is interesting but not peeer reviewed. The news media, on the other hand makes no such distinction...
An EEG will be marginally useful - you don't care what's going on during the metabolic manipulation - what will be useful is markers of toxicity (i.e., cell death, stress), and long term effects on the animals.