Individual Differences
Individual Differences
This chapter suggests that rats, like humans, display profound individual differences that have relevance for understanding a variety of normal and pathological conditions. Variability in the response to drugs, lesions, or various other experimental manipulations are frequently observed in animals, but they are often attributed to experimental error along with the natural range of variation occurring between individuals of the same species. It is shown that that much within-experiment variability consists of individual differences. Exploiting these individual differences has a potentially large payoff in terms of modeling the behavioral and physiological differences observed between humans as well as providing a means of exploring the factors that control the expression of such differences.
Keywords: laboratory rats, individual differences, rat behavior, behavioral differences, physiological differences
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
