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To conclude I would say that although this report will not please everybody, I like to believe that it is a first step towards major changes, a different attitude that will challenge the use of NHPs in medical research.

Professor Bateson 's report does not mention that almost 10% of the projects "not in good science \ result", but that they show no clear scientific, medical or social services. With an average of 2,500 NHPs used each year, this would be an average of 2,500 NHPs than 10 years wasted. So the question is not about improving the use of NHPs, but whether we need to use them at all.

Parkinson 's disease is a good example because it does not naturally exist in NHPs, and when it is created in them, are only partially similar to the symptoms, some of the hallmarks of the disease away.

Generate the non-invasive methods are not only complementary methods and applications in basic research and clinical level most relevant information about brain structure and function, especially when using multi-modal.

In simple words, so that computer analysis techniques are 'virtual electrodes "in the human brain, with important information that can really replace deliver NHP experiments to create.

TMS, positron emission tomography (PET) and fMRI to visualize all the possibilities, what 's going on in the human brain, on the firing of small groups of neurons before, during and after various interventions.