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The promise that a model of a mental illness holds for us is that once the model has been developed it should be relatively easy to not only determine the etiology of the illness but to effect a cure. The problem is that it is not easy to develop a true model of a mental illness. It could be that animal models are not possible because mental illnesses may be uniquely human disorders.
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Kornetsky, C. (1989). Animal Models: Promises and Problems. In: Koob, G.F., Ehlers, C.L., Kupfer, D.J. (eds) Animal Models of Depression. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6762-8_2
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