The impact of social isolation on rat behaviour

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder with symptoms including delusions, social withdrawal and cognitive deficits. The cognitive symptoms respond poorly to current antipsychotic medication and in order to develop new treatments it is necessary to model these deficits in animals. Rearing rats in is...

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Main Author: Porkess, Malini Veronica
Published: University of Nottingham 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514585