Animal Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Animal models are developed to test hypotheses about causes of disease, and potential treatments. With genetic, molecular, imaging and electrophysiological studies being supported by animal models, autism research has been flourishing in recent years. On different aspects of autism research, a significant number of reviews have been published. Several of them treated animal models to help current knowledge around its etiology while some others had standpoint of species or neuroanatomical findings. In this article, we present an overview of the animal models.