Be a Lab Rat

Try some experiments for yourself - we've got some simple Lab Rats science for you to try

Click on the download icon - pdf or word format - next to the challenge you want to face.


	Take our bedroom challenge - what's your frisky factor?
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	Could you react as fast as a fighter pilot?
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	Do you have to be knackered before your brain gets confused?
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	Try out test for a new perspective on fear.
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Content last updated: 26/08/2005

About our expert

Dr Paul Gabbott studies how the brain works. Before coming to the Open University in 2003 as a Lecturer in Neuroscience, he was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the University Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Psychology at Oxford University where he investigated how emotion and cognition are integrated in the prefrontal part of the cerebral cortex. At the Open University, Paul contributes to several courses concerning the function of the nervous system in both health and disease. He hopes you've enjoyed the Lab Rats programmes and that your appetite has been whetted for 'hard' science from The Open University.