Professor N. N. Kudryavtseva, Doctor of Biological Sciences, leading researcher at the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of over 250 scientific papers and monographs, has developed a model of chronic social conflicts that allows for the experimental induction of various psychopathological states. This model facilitates the screening of psychotropic drugs and allows for the study of their therapeutic and prophylactic properties under conditions close to clinical ones.