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There are obese mice, mice with heart problems and even mice being developed as models for psychiatric diseases like autism and schizophrenia.
Mice are not obviously people's equal in terms of intellect, but scientists have found ingenious ways to make mice serve as models for psychiatric diseases.
Establishing animal models for psychiatric disorders, however, is a difficult task (Malkesman et al. 2009).
This newly designed device can now be used in the highly needed DBS behavioral studies in mice, to further investigate the underlying mechanisms of DBS in behavioral animal models for psychiatric disorders.
This review aims to assess how these advances can inform the development of animal models for psychiatric disease, with a focus on schizophrenia and in vivo electrophysiological circuit-level measures with high potential as disease biomarkers.
The current predominance of genetic models for psychiatric disorders may also explain that such aspects have been overlooked [11].
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It was the original club house model for psychiatric treatment, which has now been copied by many other treatment centers.
Therefore increased anxiety should not be generally interpreted as a model for psychiatric pathology, e.g. wild mice display increased anxiety behavior in response to open areas compared to inbred laboratory strains [30].
These arguments struck a chord with politicians and health administrators who had advocated non-institutional treatment for elderly patients since the 1950s, in order to free up beds and save money, and looked to adopt a similar model for psychiatric services after the 1959 Mental Health Act endorsed community care (Freeman, 1999; Thane, 2000: 452000
Importantly, deletion of individual genes is not providing animal models for certain psychiatric disorders as these are caused by a manifold of minor changes in a series of so-called susceptibility genes.
Moreover, a growing number of studies are showing the beneficial effects of such models for other psychiatric disorders across primary care, specialty and mental health settings, including improvements in mental health and physical health symptoms, and functional outcomes [ 30, 33– 33].
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