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Equal number of sham operated and age matched animals served as controls.
London's Evening Standard filled its front page Thursday with two stories--the death of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and the award of libel damages of more than $160,000 each to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman over allegations in a British newspaper that their marriage was a "hypocritical sham" to cover up their homosexuality.
In an attempt to localize the effects of microgyric lesions on brain weight, we assessed total brain area, neocortical area, and microgyric lesion area, and estimated volume in a randomly selected subset of subjects from Study 1 (Control N = 7 microgyric, 6 sham; Deprived N = 6 microgyric, 6 sham; Enriched N = 6 microgyric, 5 sham).
Each study's specific treatment groups served as Between Subject variables - Study 1: Environment (3 levels: Enriched, White Noise, and Control), Lesion (2: Microgyric Lesion and Sham); Study 2: Age (3: P30, P52, and P83), Lesion (2: Microgyric Lesion and Sham); Study 3: Sex (2: Male and Female), Lesion (2: Microgyric Lesion and Sham).
Pups were randomly designated to receive bilateral freezing lesions or sham surgery, balancing treatment within litters.