“…During the last decades, small animal imaging has been increasingly employed to study neurochemical and physiological parameters such as perfusion, glucose utilization, or receptor and transporter binding in suitable animal models of human disorders (for review, see Nikolaus et al, 2004Nikolaus et al, , 2007b. As, for ethical reasons, numerous scientific questions cannot be assessed in humans, a complementary approach in SZ research can be the performance of investigations on certain presynaptic and/or postsynaptic constituents in suitable animal models such as neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion rat (NVHL; for review, see Lipska and Weinberger, 2000).…”