Creation, Breeding, Phenotyping, Distribution and Archiving of model organisms
Creation, Breeding, Phenotyping, Distribution and Archiving of model organisms
Psychiatric disorders are behavioral, emotional, or cognitive dysfunctions that are not readily controlled by the individual and are related to clinically significant distress or impairment in one or more areas including social, occupational, and interpersonal functioning. The behavioral and emotional response is beyond a culturally expected response to common life stressors and losses.
Several procotols are implemented for evaluation of Anxiety-related behavior, susceptibility to despair -a symptom of Depression-, sensorimotor gating -altered in Schizophrenia-, or social behavior - a recognizable symptom of Autism Spectrum Disorder-