Preface

The selection of a suitable preclinical, experimental model is one of the challenges for any pharmacologist or biomedical scientist, or researcher. The animal model is one of the essential tools to study any disease conditions and related pathologies. This is also a challenge for a biomedical scientist to choose or develop correct and suitable or reliable animal models to study the respective disease pathology. Every experimental model has its own advantages, limitations, or weaknesses. These limitations and advantages are very important to consider before the selection of any experimental model to study disease conditions.

Authors in the present book made a significant effort to incorporate the details of various experimental models to study different neurological diseases. Details of these models are well mixed up with the researcher’s self-experience in the laboratory. This book has been written by a group of active researchers with an aim to cover emerging experimental models of various neurological problems, particularly Alzheimer's disease, psychosis, Parkinson's, Huntington disease, vascular dementia, schizophrenia, neurodegenerative disorders, and brain tumor, etc. Authors have made a significant effort to correlate the same with disease conditions. Another feature of the is book is to discuss cognitive dysfunction, which is now very commonly associated with several neurological problems such as diabetes, vascular impairment, and other neurovegetative condition such as Huntington's and Parkinson's disease, etc.

This book is intended for all researchers/scientists/ students of biomedical sciences, pharmacology, medical students, pharmacy students, biochemistry, biotechnology, oncologist, neuropsychiatrist, neurologist, etc., who are working in the areas of neurodegenerative disease, cognitive dysfunction, and neuropsychiatric or medical sciences or life sciences.