PKU, learning, and models of mental retardation

Developmental Psychobiology
B J StruppL Blumstein

Abstract

Experimental phenylketonuria was induced in male rats by daily injections of alpha-methylphenylalanine and phenylalanine on postnatal Days 3-31. Beginning at 8 weeks of age, the animals were subjected to a test of observational learning followed by a test of latent learning (two tests of "advantageous" learning). The animals subjected to the PKU treatment early in life showed significant learning deficits in both tests. The importance of these studies lies in the fact that unlike conventional tests of learning, tests of advantageous learning are sensitive to the kinds of biological insults which cause mental retardation in humans. This differential sensitivity evident in studies of animal models of cognitive pathology is analogized to the areas of dysfunction which characterize human mental retardation. Suggestions for the development of appropriate models of intellectual development are made.

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