The critical importance of basic animal research for neuropsychiatric disorders

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. tbale@som.umaryland.edu.
² Department of Pharmacology and Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
³ Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ McLean Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
⁶ Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
⁸ Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Tracy L Bale et al. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2019 Jul.

. 2019 Jul;44(8):1349-1353.

doi: 10.1038/s41386-019-0405-9. Epub 2019 May 2.

¹ Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. tbale@som.umaryland.edu.
² Department of Pharmacology and Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
³ Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ McLean Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
⁶ Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
⁸ Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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