A Tale of Two Papers
/As behavioral neuroscientists, we hope that our findings generalize beyond the exact conditions of our experiments, and in many cases, beyond the species we choose to study. This is particularly true in labs that study models of psychiatric disease. Recent high profile co-publications on compulsive behavior and on depression, however, call this idea into question. Here I'll discuss these two pairs-of-papers, with an eye toward their implications for generalizability.
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