Psychiatric Disorders: how can fish help us?

Abstract

Psychiatric disorders result from a brain malfunction. Disruption of particular genes seem to account for behavioural abnormalities. However, this association between gene and disorder has to be demonstrated and the mechanism by which these genes act understood. Dr. Héctor Carreño, a post-doc in the Department of Neurosciences, Psychology and Behaviour, and tells us how his research with the small vertebrate zebrafish hopes to shed light onto this connection.