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  • 标题:Principles for developing animal models of military PTSD
  • 作者:Nikolaos P. Daskalakis ; Rachel Yehuda
  • 期刊名称:European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • 印刷版ISSN:2000-8198
  • 电子版ISSN:2000-8066
  • 出版年度:2014
  • 卷号:5
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:23825
  • DOI:10.3402/ejpt.v5.23825
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Taylor & Francis Group
  • 摘要:The extent to which animal studies can be relevant to military posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) continues to be a matter of discussion. Some features of the clinical syndrome are more easily modeled than others. In the animal literature, a great deal of attention is focused on modeling the characteristics of military exposures and their impact on measurable behaviors and biological parameters. There are many issues to consider regarding the ecological validity of predator, social defeat or immobilization stress to combat-related experience. In contrast, less attention has been paid to individual variation following these exposures. Such variation is critical to understand how individual differences in the response to military trauma exposure may result to PTSD or resilience. It is important to consider potential differences in biological findings when comparing extremely exposed to non-exposed animals, versus those that result from examining individual differences. Animal models of military PTSD are also critical in advancing efforts in clinical treatment. In an ideal translational approach to study deployment related outcomes, information from humans and animals, blood and brain, should be carefully considered in tandem, possibly even computed simultaneously, to identify molecules, pathways and networks that are likely to be the key drivers of military PTSD symptoms. With the use novel biological methodologies (e.g., optogenetics) in the animal models, critical genes and pathways can be tuned up or down (rather than over-expressed or ablated completely) in discrete brain regions. Such techniques together with pre-and post-deployment human imaging will accelerate the identification of novel pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention strategies.
  • 关键词:Animal ; posttraumatic stress disorder ; military ; combat ; biomarkers Responsible Editor: Alexander McFarlane; The University of Adelaide; Australia.
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