My ideas for this book have been evolving over the last several
years as I have been working in the animal modeling area and have
seen it change rather dramatically. There have been tremendous
advances, both in methodology and in conceptualization, yet the
literature is scattered in journals encompassing many disciplines.
In particular, there have been only very limited attempts to write
about the philosophical, conceptual, and controversial issues in
this field; to pull together diverse findings; and to provide some
general perspective on its future. As will probably be apparent, I
am a clinical psychiatrist who also has a fundamental interest in
animal behavior, especially primate social behavior. I entered the
field from a clinical research standpoint to devel op some animal
models of depression after being stimulated to do so by Dr. William
Bunney, then at the National Institute of Mental Health and now at
the University of California-Irvine. The field has grown rapidly
since then and there is considerable research activity. Indeed, the
re search activity has grown more rapidly than our
conceptualization of what animal models are and are not. Animal
preparations are now available for studying specific aspects of
certain types of psychopathology. Thoughtful workers in the animal
modeling field no longer talk about comprehensive models but rather
about more limited experimental preparations in animals for
studying certain specific aspects of human psychopathology."
General
Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
1988 |
Authors: |
William T. McKinney Jr.
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
212 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4684-5432-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Other branches of medicine >
Psychiatry
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LSN: |
1-4684-5432-3 |
Barcode: |
9781468454321 |
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