Also Dogs Have Sense! Also Neuroscience Research Shows Dogs Have Emotions Like a Man

A neuro economics professor at a university in Georgia has managed to find that the dog turns out to have emotions, just like humans.
Gregory Berns, a professor of Neuroeconomics at Emory University, Atlanta, who has tested the results of an MRI scan of the brain of his dog, has found that the canine creature turns using the same parts of the human brain to 'feel'.

The initial purpose of the research was to determine how the brain works and what dogs they think about humans, according to the New York Times.
By looking at the brain directly dogs and overcome their behavior, the results of MRI scans can show people about the internal state of the dog brain.

We humans usually do not like MRI scans during the MRI procedure takes place because we have to be quiet and not move at all.
In conventional veterinary practices, animal anesthetized beforehand so they do not move during the MRI scan procedure takes place.
'But it means that the researchers can not study the brain function of the dogs, at least, everything that is important as the perception or emotion, said Berns.

He began to train his dog, Callie, a dog crossbreed terrier types thin southern Appalachians, using MRI simulator that he created himself in his house.

With the help of his friends, Mark Spivak, a dog trainer, taught his dog put his head on the chin and dwell braces for up to 30 seconds.

After several months of training and made ​​several experiments of trial-and-error with the actual MRI scanner, they finally managed to get the first dog map brain activity and attempt to determine which parts of the brain that dogs can distinguish the smell of dog or dogs known unknown and human odor.

Berns successfully found a surprising similarity between the human brain with the dog brain in both structure and function of their main areas of the brain: the caudate nucleus.
Located between the caudate nucleus of the brain (brainstem) and cortex and is rich in dopamine receptors.

In humans, the caudate plays an important role in anticipation of everything that we like, such as food, love and money, according to Berns.
In dogs, the study found that activity in the caudate increased if no response to signals that indicate the presence of food.
The caudate also become active if any of the known human odor. And in the initial test, the caudate in dogs is also shown to be active when the dog saw his master's return after disappearing from sight.

'Do these findings prove that humans love dogs? Not really. But a lot of things that activate the caudate in humans, which is associated with positive emotions, it also activates the caudate in dogs, "said Berns.
Neuroscientists call this a functional homology, and this may be an indication of the emotional dog.

The ability to experience positive emotions, such as love and a sense of attachment, means that the dog has a level of sentience (level of sentience) adengan comparable level of sentience human child.
Berns believes it can change the way humans think of the dog, which has long been considered as a property.

Although the Protection of Animals Act 1996 has raised the standard treatment of animals, but the sound of the deed instead strengthen the view that animal-object is an object that can be killed it should not lead to the origin of their suffering.

Berns suggested, because the Supreme Court has stated that the results of brain imaging conducted by neuroscientists can be used to determine whether a person has matured in the past adolesens, then 'maybe susatu day' we can file a lawsuit to defend the rights of dogs based on the findings from brain imaging results (brain imaging) in the dog. '