easy · LSAT Reading Comprehension
In studies of laboratory animals, placing subjects in enriched environments full of toys, exercise wheels, and social contact reliably boosts the production of new neurons. Whether this lesson can be carried over to people is far less certain. Human neurogenesis proceeds at a substantially lower rate than the rodent process, and the route from a controlled animal experiment to an approved clinical treatment is rarely short or smooth.
Which one of the following does the passage suggest about applying the lessons of environmental enrichment to humans?
- It is unnecessary, since the adult human brain is said to already sustain extremely high rates of ongoing neurogenesis.
- It is essentially certain to succeed, provided only that the patients selected for treatment are sufficiently young.
- It already serves, according to the passage, as the established standard medical treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
- Carrying findings from animal models into human clinical practice is likely to prove a long and uncertain undertaking.
- It will require enriched environments, with their toys and wheels, to be reproduced exactly for every individual patient.
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