Question: How are you going to adapt the research you do on mice to help humans with ADHD?

Simon Trent answered on 17 Jun 2011:

This is a good question! We use mice because we can artificially alter their genes easily (its more complicated with humans and you would need a brave volunteer!) and study their roles in the mice first. Any that are of interest (we have found a few) can then be followed up in humans at a later stage either by non-invasive stuff like brain scanning or by getting hold of human brains to study (not so easy to do, but possible).