Studying behavioural control in rodents and humans

A major problem in using animal studies to understand human disorders such as alcohol abuse is the mismatch between what is actually studied in animals and humans. While many tests appear to have “face validity”, such face validity is often only in the eye of the beholder. An approach to overcoming the mismatch between animal and human research is to develop methods that are homologous across species. We have developed several methods for evaluating cognitive abilities in humans based on rodent tests of cognitive performance (e.g.

Source: Alcohol - May 1, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Dai Stephens Source Type: research