Strategies for the development of animal models for bipolar disorder: New opportunities and new challenges

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-87

  Einat, Haim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Diurnal rodents; Domains of bipolar disorder; Endophenotypes; Nontraditional model animals; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LITHIUM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BEHAVIORISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOPHENOTYPE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; MANIA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 84870528705     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2010_49     Document Type: Article

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