As someone who has been dealing with mental health issues for most of my adult life, I am all too aware of the urgent need for medical progress in this field, but the hopelessly crude and outdated nature of some animal-based research into mental health disorders is not the way to go.
The Home Office unit responsible for regulating animal experiments has published a long-awaited report into animal welfare breaches in British laboratories. This describes deeply troubling incidents including a non-human primate dying after becoming trapped behind a restraint device, 16 rats dying of suffocation and numerous incidents of animals being left without food or water.
A new paper calls for medical research to be modernised and summarises the strong scientific, ethical and economic case for replacing misleading animal experiments with cutting-edge, human relevant techniques.
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