“…It is an ideal model for investigating the efficacy of therapeutic treatments which reduce neurological dysfunction in HIV-infected individuals in the post-HAART era. The use of this rodent model for investigating neurologically related issues has been well established Moran, Aksenov, Booze, Webb, & Mactutus, 2012;Moran, Booze, Webb, & Mactutus, 2013;Royal, Wang, Jones, Tran, & Bryant, 2007;Royal et al, 2012). For example, Moran et al (2012Moran et al ( , 2013 used this model to test alterations in sensorimotor gating and behavior resulting from HIV-1 infection, including changes in dopamine (DA) function.…”