Principles and Methods for Behavioral Tests of Mental Disorder-like Rodents
Mental disorders refer to the disorders in the mental activity(affection,cognition,and volition,etc)of patients,which are caused by the brain dysfunction.Implicit mental disorders are usually accompanied by explicit abnormal behaviors.Building mental disorder-like animals is vital for exploring the pathogenesis of mental disorders,and is meaningful for evaluating the validity of the researches on mental disorders.Therefore,based on previous studies about mental disorder-like rodents,we summarized the principles and method for behavioral tests of some mental disorders(depression,anxiety,bipolar disorder,autism spectrum disorder,attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,post-traumatic stress disorder,obsessive-compulsive disorder),expecting to provide a reference for the fundamental researches of psychiatry.