CORPUS CHRISTI — In one part of Riccardo Mozzachiodi’s research, a California sea snail, no larger than a fist, is put into a paralyzed state, split open, and its brain is removed.
Then a student researcher removes and repairs nerves in the brain and it is inserted back into the snail.
Mozzachiodi said the process is one way to understand how a human brain processes fear and its effect on appetite.