Shades of imperius??

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "jenP_97" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote:

> Anyway, my husband read me this article last night and the first 
> thing I thought of was "That sounds like the work of evil dark 
> wizards!"
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020501/
> ap_on_sc/remote_controlled_rats_2

When I heard it on news radio (sorry, I haven't checked your link 
for yahoo!news's spin), my first thought (laptop computer and all) 
was: "Does he move his rat with a mouse?"

Very early in the story, it was explained that the left and right 
electrodes in rat's brain give him the feeling of being tapped on the 
left or right side of his face, not take over his muscles from 
his will, and when the newsreader asked the researched how he 
rewards the rats, the researcher brushed past the "reward center" 
electrode to say he thinks the rats enjoy this work because 
they get to go outside. He said the first time the rats were 
taken from their cages and taken outside, they went crazy having fun 
playing on the grass.