Posted by zeugma on May 2, 2006, at 17:00:32
In reply to Re: Animal models of psychiatric illness » zeugma, posted by ed_uk on May 2, 2006, at 14:56:23
hi Ed.
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> I imagine that numerous medications which may have been effective in humans have been discarded due to lack of efficacy in certain animal models of psychiatric illness.>>that's probably true. I would suggest that you study nehavioral pharmacology at school, so that you can design better models :-) except that i think you think the whole project is misguided.
unfortunately, the NK2 inhibitors, which are supposedly the next generation of AD's, got their initial credentials from gerbils :-)
i think animal models are important, because that is where the real (unbiased) science is done, in the lifespan of a drug. And then at the other end of a drug's lifespan one can study the drugs scientifically when pharma companies are not biassing the evidence.
-z
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