Dean was given his name by Bruce Grierson, the author of "What makes Olga run?". Dean resides in a lab at UC Riverside, is slender by mice standards and seldom stays still.
Dean was bred to run, the result of 64 generations of mice who like to run far and fast. In the same fashion as MW and Lou, among other people, Dean likes to wake up in the morning and immediately begin to run.
Dean has run up to 19 miles in a day! Not bad for a mouse, or human. Psychologists believe Dean gets a kind of runners high and when you deprive him of being able to run he is depressed. But it's not just the genetic makeup, Dean (and us) also have to have the opportunities to exercise. When we exercise regularly we become better athletes, and the cycle continues. Regular exercise keeps the dopamine flowing, which makes us (and Dean) feel better.
There can be a downside to this, if the exercise overtakes all else in your life. Balance is important, whether you are Dean the Mouse or a homo sapien.
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