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Conventional behavioural mouse models of depression are often used to study the disorder, but cannot capture the full picture of the human disease. Here, scientists present two views about the best research strategies to adopt if treatments are to be improved.

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  1. Lisa M. Monteggia is in the Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9111, USA.,

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  2. Robert C. Malenka and Karl Deisseroth are in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,

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Monteggia, L., Malenka, R. & Deisseroth, K. The best way forward. Nature 515, 200–201 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/515200a

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