Think what it would be like if they could do the same with the clerks at the Motor Vehicle Department.

A new breed of permanently “cheerful” mouse is providing new hope for treatment of clinical depression, researchers say. 

Courtesy National Institutes of Health


The sci­en­tists stud­ied a gene called TREK-1, which can af­fect the flow of a brain chem­i­cal called ser­o­to­nin. This in turn in­flu­ences mood, sleep and sex­u­al­i­ty. 


 

Source: Researchers breed permanently “happy” mice