Model behavior animal experiments, complexity, and the genetics of psychiatric disorders

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today-but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow scientists, the general public, and even themselves t...

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Главный автор: Nelson, Nicole C.
Формат: Электронная книга
Язык:English
Публикация: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Оглавление:
  • Introduction: a furry, one-ounce human?
  • Containing complexities in the animal behavior genetics laboratory
  • Animal behavior genetics, the past and the future
  • Building epistemic scaffolds for modeling work
  • Epistemic by-products: learning about environments while studying genetics
  • Understanding binge drinking
  • Leaving the laboratory
  • Conclusion: an expanded vocabulary for the laboratory.