more-inCalifornia Institute of Technology neurobiologist David J. Anderson is at the vanguard of studying the neurobiological foundations of emotion. There’s a dismal history of failure in the pharmaceutical industry in translating studies of emotional behaviour of anxiety in rats or mice to humans. There hasn’t been a fundamentally new neuropsychiatric drug in the last 50 years. There’s a movement, particularly in China and Japan, where regulatory restrictions on working on nonhuman primates are not as great as they are in the U.S. to study brain circuits in rhesus macaques and marmosets. I would say those metaphors are still in active use but it depends on the part of the brain you study.

Source: The Hindu January 16, 2018 18:45 UTC