Topic: mouse CANTAB-like battery

Cognition is among the first domains to be affected in schizophrenia and can predict the onset of psychosis. Measuring cognitive changes in schizophrenia is a complex process, which often involves a battery of multiple tests, where individual performance is compared to the average performance of the healthy population. Animal models are often used to probe into mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction. However, animal models of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and other disorders usually focus on a single cognitive domain using a limited number of cognitive assays. In addition, behavioral ana