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Why Are Animals Used to Study the Brain?
Pages 11-13

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... Animal research involving the brain has already produced dramatic improvements in human health and well being, and it promises many more.18 Drug therapies developed in part in animals have revolutionized the treatment of mental illness in the last generation. For example, chlorpromazine, which was developed in the l950s using animals, and other antipsychotic drugs have eliminated the horrific conditions that used to exist in the wards of mental hospitals where the most severely disturbed patients were once kept.
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... We would know much less about these aspects of human life without animal research, and continued animal research is essential if new ways are to be found to cope with behavioral problems. Nonhuman primates are particularly valuable in behavioral research, as they are in a wide range of biomedical research, because of their many similarities to humans.19 12
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