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Nothing to Lose But a Leash - Nassau Weekly

17 Sep 2026, 03:34 GMT By nassauweekly
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On October 5, 2013, The New York Times published an op-ed by Dr. Gregory Berns, a professor at Emory University who concluded from a neurological experiment on man’s best friend that “dogs are people, too.” To examine dogs’ brains and their responses to emotion and perception, Dr. Berns trained them to sit silently still in an MRI scanner.