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In an occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors briefly comment on review articles. These annotations were written by Barbara Geller, MD, Peter Roy-Byrne, MD, and Joel Yager, MD
High-functioning mice. Healthy teenagers are using stimulants without prescriptions to enhance cognition and well-being (JW Psychiatry Apr 30 2007). Concurrently, established academicians from diverse fields, including neurobehavioralists, are espousing cognition-enhancing drugs for healthy individuals (Nature 2008; 456:702). Now, mice have been engineered to over- or underexpress genetic polymorphisms that alter behavior and cognitive abilities.1 For example, when mice are placed into water, they seek a platform above water level. Mice engineered to overex…