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Published online 31 October 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/450006a

Model behaviour

The brain is no longer the black box it used to be, and neuroscientists are starting to put new knowledge to good use, developing better animal models for psychiatric disorders. Alison Abbott reports.

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