Is 21st century neuroscience too focussed on the rat/mouse model of brain function and dysfunction?

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2008, Pages

  Manger, Paul R ^a   Cort, Jessica ^a   Ebrahim, Naseem ^a   Goodman, Adelaya ^a   Henning, Justine ^a   Karolia, Mohamed ^a   Rodrigues, Stacey Lee ^a   Štrkalj, Goran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal models; Central nervous system; Evolution; Invertebrate; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149159130     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.05.005.2008     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Blinkov, S. M., and Glezer, I. I. (1968). The Human Brain in Figures and Tables. A Quantitative Handbook. New York, Plenum Press.
2. Bueker, E. D. (1948). Implantation of tumors in the hind limb field of the embryonic chick and the developmental response of the lumbosacral nervous system. Anat. Rec. 102, 369-390
3. Bullock, T. H. (1984). Comparative neuroscience holds promise for quiet revolutions. Science 225, 473-478
4. Bullock, T. H. (1993). How are more complex brain different? One view and an agenda for comparative neurobiology. Brain Behav. Evol. 41, 88-96
5. Cajal, S. R. (1888). Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves. Rev. Trimest. Histol. Norm. Patol. (Barcelona) 1, 1-10
6. Dobzhansky, T. (1973). Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Am. Biol. Teach. 35, 125-129
7. Fritsch, G., and Hitzig, E. (1870). Uber die elektrische Erregbarkeit des Grosshirns. Arch. Anat. Physiol. Wiss. Med. 37, 300-332
8. Grillner, S. (1985). Neurobiological bases of rhythmic motor acts in vertebrates. Science 228, 143-148
9. Hall, M. (1833). On the reflex function of the medulla oblongata and medulla spinalis. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 1833, 635-665
10. Hodgkin, A. L., and Huxley, A. F. (1952). A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. J. Physiol. 117, 500-544
11. Hubel, D. H., and Wiesel, T. N. (1998). Early exploration of the visual cortex. Neuron 20, 401-412
12. Kandel, E. R. (2004). The molecular biology of memory storage: a dialog between genes and synapses. Biosci. Rep. 24, 477-522
13. Merzenich, M. M., Kaas, J. H., Wall, J., Nelson, R. J., Sur, M., and Felleman, D. (1983). Topographic reorganization of somatosensory cortical areas 3b and 1 in adult monkeys following restricted deafferentation. Neuroscience 8, 33-55
14. Merzenich, M. M., Nelson, R. J., Stryker, M. P., Cynader, M. S., Schoppmann, A., and Zook, J. M. (1984). Somatosensory cortical map changes following digit amputation in adult monkeys. J. Comp. Neurol. 224, 591-605
15. Mountcastle, V. B. (1997). The columnar organization of the neocortex. Brain 120, 701-722
16. Munk, H. (1878). Weitere Mittheilungen zur Physiologie der Grosshirnrinde. Verh. Physiol. Ges. Berl. 162-178
17. Nieuwenhuys, R. (1994). Comparative neuroanatomy: place, principles, practice and programme. Eur. J. Morphol. 32, 142-155
18. Nottebohm, F. (2002). Neuronal replacement in adult brain. Brain Res. Bull. 57, 737-749
19. Pavlov, I. P. (1927). Conditioned Reflexes. London, Oxford University Press.
20. Rakic, P. (1990). Principles of neural cell-migration. Experientia 46, 882-891
21. Rechtschaffen, A., and Bergmann, B. M. (2002). Sleep deprivation in the rat: an update of the 1989 paper. Sleep 25, 18-24
22. Saló, E. (2006). The power of regeneration and the stem-cell kingdom: freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes). Bioessays 28, 546-559
23. Schultz, W., Apicella, P., and Ljungberg, T. (1993). Responses of monkey dopamine neurons to reward and conditioned stimuli during successive steps of learning a delayed response task. J. Neurosci. 13, 900-913
24. Schultz, W., Dayan, P., and Montague, P. R. (1997). A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275, 1593-1599
25. Shimizu, T. (2004). Comparative cognition and neuroscience: misconceptions about brain evolution. Jpn. Psychol. Res. 46, 246-254
26. Siegel, J. M. (2008). Do all animals sleep? Trends Neurosci. 31, 208-213
27. Skinner, B. F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts.
28. Wolbarsht, M. L., and Yeandle, S. S. (1967). Visual processes in the Limulus eye. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 29, 513-542.