The present invention relates to a novel use of an .alpha.1G T-type
calcium channel transgenic mouse as a nervous disease model, more
particularly, a novel use of a mouse deficient in .alpha.1G T-type
calcium channel showing novelty-seeking and alcohol preference as a
nervous disease model for human nervous related diseases such as
novelty-seeking character, alcoholism, anxiety and emotion disorder by
stress, etc. The .alpha.1G T-type channel transgenic mice showing
novelty-seeking and alcohol preference of the present invention can be
effectively used for the development of a medicine and a therapeutic
method for human nervous diseases.