title: Psychiatric distress in animals versus animal models of psychiatric distress.
abstract: The realm of human uniqueness steadily shrinks; reflecting this, other primates suffer from states closer to depression or anxiety than 'depressive-like' or 'anxiety-like behavior'. Nonetheless, there remain psychiatric domains unique to humans. Appreciating these continuities and discontinuities must inform the choice of neurobiological approach used in studying any animal model of psychiatric disorders. More fundamentally, the continuities reveal how aspects of psychiatric malaise run deeper than our species' history.
authors: Departments of Biological Sciences, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA and the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors: Robert M
authors: RM
authors: Sapolsky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D023421:Models, Animal; D008962:Models, Theoretical