Despite massive research efforts the exact pathogenesis and pathophysiology of addiction
and neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety, schizophrenia and autism remain largely …

Psychiatric disorders are a diverse set of diseases that affect all aspects of mental function
including social interaction, thinking, feeling, and mood. Although psychiatric disorders …

The treatment of psychiatric disorders presents three major challenges to the research and
clinical community: defining a genotype associated with a disorder, characterizing the …

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is rapidly becoming a popular model organism in
pharmacogenetics and neuropharmacology. Both larval and adult zebrafish are currently …

Drug abuse and brain disorders related to drug comsumption are public health problems
with harmful individual and social consequences. The identification of therapeutic targets …

With the advent of next-generation sequencing technologies, there has been considerable
progress in our ability to identify genes that are strongly associated with …

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have become a powerful tool in neuroscience research due to their
genetic tractability, molecular/physiological conservation, small body size, ease of …

Psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent brain pathologies that represent an urgent, unmet
biomedical problem. Since reliable clinical diagnoses are essential for the treatment of …

The zebrafish represents an excellent compromise between system complexity and practical
simplicity, features that make it useful for modeling and mechanistic analysis of complex …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder with complex
symptoms and unclear, multi-factorial pathogenesis. Animal (rodent) models of ASD-like …