It's not always feasible to study the human brain in order to address the issues of organization and function of human nervous system as well as the pathological bases of neurological and psychiatric diseases. So neuroscientists have informally adopted a set of "model organisms" based on their ability to do genetic analyses on systems that exhibit many biological similarities to the human one. These organisms are:
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