Toward an animal model for antisocial behavior: Parallels between mice and humans

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 563-574

  Sluyter, Frans ^a,d   Arseneault, Louise ^a   Moffitt, Terrie E ^a,b   Veenema, Alexa H ^c   De Boer, Sietse ^c   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Antisocial behavior; Mouse model; Violence

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; COGNITION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; PHENOTYPE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIOLENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141886135     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025730901955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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