Animal Models of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders

Animal models of schizophrenia and other major psychiatric disorders have been sought for decades, and, as a result, we are now facing new vistas on pathophysiology that could lead to novel therapeutic approaches and even hint at possible preventive strategies. Animal Models of Schizophrenia and Rel...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: O'Donnell, Patricio. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Neuromethods, 59
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-157-4
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Table of Contents:
  • A Method to the Madness:  Producing the Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesion Rat Model of Schizophrenia
  • Gestational MAM (Methylazoxymethanol Acetate) Administration: A Promising Animal Model for Psychosis Onset
  • Prenatal Infection and Immune Models of Schizophrenia
  • The Hypoxic Rat Model for Obstetric Complications in Schizophrenia
  • The Developmental Vitamin D (DVD) Model of Schizophrenia
  • Studying Schizophrenia in a Dish: Use of Primary Neuronal Cultures to Study the Long Term Effects of NMDA Receptor Antagonists on Parvalbumin-Positive Fast-Spiking Interneurons
  • Glutathione Deficit and Redox Dysregulation in Animal Models of Schizophrenia
  • Psychiatric Genetics and the Generation of Mutant Animal Models
  • DISC1 Mouse Models
  • Genetically-Engineered Mice for Schizophrenia Research
  • Epigenetic Animal Models of GABAergic Deficit in Mental Disorders
  • Modeling Schizophrenia in Neuregulin 1 and ErbB4 Mutant Mice.