A critical overview of animal models of psychiatric disorders: challenges and perspectives.

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Animal models of psychiatric disorders are a challenging but highly relevant issue. Most psychiatric disorders are very heterogeneous syndromes, resulting from multiple and varied causal factors and characterized by symptoms that can only be inferred with significant limitations in non-human models. As constructing a model that reproduces a whole psychiatric syndrome seems virtually impossible, researchers have...

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