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- Title
Neuroscience: Obsessed with grooming.
- Authors
Hyman, Steven E.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the use of an animal model such as a genetically engineered mouse to show the behavioral features similar to people with obsessive compulsive disorder. A drug used in treating OCD in humans has been found to effective the mice. Genetic animal models of psychiatric disorders were produced by inbreeding for their desired traits and introducing human disease genes and mutating existing animal gene. On the other hand, approximately 2 percent to humans has been found to have OCD.
- Subjects
LABORATORY mice; TRANSGENIC organisms; COMPULSIVE behavior; HUMAN behavior; GENETIC engineering; GENES; PERSONALITY; INBREEDING; GENETIC mutation
- Publication
Nature, 2007, Vol 448, Issue 7156, p871
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/448871a