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Abstract: Mental disorders refer to the disorders in the mental activity ( affection, cognition, and
volition, etc) of patients, which are caused by the brain dysfunction. Implicit mental disorders are
usually accompanied by explicit abnormal behaviors. Building mental disorder-like animals is vital for
exploring the pathogenesis of mental disorders, and is meaningful for evaluating the validity of the
researches on mental disorders. Therefore, based on previous studies about mental disorder-like rodents,
we summarized the principles and method for behavioral tests of some mental disorders ( depression,
anxiety, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder ) , expecting to provide a reference for the fundamental researches of psychiatry.

Key words: mental disorder, animal model, ethology, behavior