I Like the picture again. I recognizes most of that in myself at one time or another except catatonic behavior and incoherent speech, derailment must be when I have a whole topic to talk about and as I start to talk about it it just vanishes, like 'poof' all the thoughts are gone like they have been erased by someone. The one I didn't know was a symptom, but that I have had is slowness in verbal responses, and it has not been that I have not understood an enquiry but some disconnect between my thoughts and verbal centers and organizing my words in a coherent manner. Which doesn't inspire one to feel socially confidant.
I am somewhat concerned about modelling schizophrenia in rats. Can you give me more information about this? I believe I read an article while taking a Neurobiology of Mental Disorders class (I could reproduce the article if needed) that suggested schizophrenic behaviour in rats was parallel to anti-social behaviour and not wanting to socialize with other rats. There did not seem to be much more than this, if I am not mistaken. Could you elaborate upon this?
I've always thought that mental and social disorders were fairly complex and that animal models were or are insufficient to study and derive insights from. Any thoughts?