Fig. 1.
A summary of the strengths and weaknesses of common psychiatric research methods. The challenge of elucidating disease mechanisms in psychiatric disorders requires a diverse array of research tools. Each of these tools has unique strengths (red) and weaknesses (blue), thereby complementing one another. Here we summarize four techniques: induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) models, rodent models, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and neuroimaging