Social interactions in the clinic and the cage: Toward a more valid mouse model of autism

Neuromethods

Volumn 50, Issue , 2011, Pages 153-192

  Lahvis, Garet P ^a   Black, Lois M ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADI R; ADOS; animal communication; autism; empathy; environment; genetics; Mouse; pervasive developmental disorders; prosody; reciprocity; social motivation; social reward; sociality

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CAGE; DISEASE MODEL; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECEPTIVITY TO FEAR TEST; REWARD; SOCIABILITY AND PREFERENCE FOR SOCIAL NOVELTY TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; SOCIOPATHY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77957916570     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-883-6_7     Document Type: Article

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