Behavioral Disorders
Behavioral Disorders are difficult to study in animal models because it is difficult to know what animals are thinking and because animal models used to asses psychopathologies are experimental preparations developed to study a condition. Can a monkey effectively communicate that he is sad or that he feels overwhelmed? Lacking the ability to use language to study behavioral disorders like depression and stress questions the validity of those studies conducted. It can be difficult to attribute human afflictions to non-human animals.
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