The pig as a model animal for studying cognition and neurobehavioral disorders

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 359-383

  Gieling, Elise T ^a,b   Schuurman, Teun ^c   Nordquist, Rebecca E ^a,b   van der Staay, F Josef ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal model; Dementia; Depression psychosis; Eating disorders; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurodegenerative diseases; Pig (sus scrofa); Positron emission tomography (PET); Translational research

Indexed keywords

HALOPERIDOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; RIMONABANT; RISPERIDONE; SIBUTRAMINE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EATING DISORDER; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING DISORDER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COGNITION; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PIG;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; SWINE;

EID: 84865813214     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2010_112     Document Type: Article

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