title: Animal models of schizophrenia emphasizing construct validity.
abstract: Achieving animal models of schizophrenia which are representative of clear aspects of the illness is critical to understanding pathophysiology and developing novel treatments for the complex syndrome. This chapter reviews the various approaches that have been used in the past to create animal models of schizophrenia, including pharmacological approaches, environmental risk conditions and schizophrenia risk genes. In addition, we present a new animal model which derives directly from human tissue and brain imaging data used to develop a human schizophrenia model. This chapter emphasizes the crucial need for construct validity and of modeling discrete elements of schizophrenia's illness presentation as the way to successful advances.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yanagi
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Southcott
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lister
authors.forename: Carol A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Tamminga
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*