We share some commonalities with animals - they can have OCD, anxiety, or PTSD for instance. Animal models makes sense for those. But animals cannot, for examp

We share some commonalities with animals - they can have OCD, anxiety, or PTSD for instance. Animal models makes sense for those. But animals cannot, for example, experience schizophrenia or other psychoses. Nor can they be autistic. Directly from our capacity for improvements in intelligence and self-awareness comes psychosis. Directly from our unique social evolution comes autism. Brain differences that are wholly unique to humans are what underpin a lot of disorders. The animal model approach has a very limited scope. Some "researchers" think animals can be autistic (under an outdated idea of what autism is from over 60 years ago). It's dangerous pseudoscientific research being used to propose dangerous quackery treatment models.