What are We Measuring When We Test Strain Differences in Anxiety in Mice?

2013/01/01 by Timothy P. O’Leary, Rhian K. Gunn, Richard E. Brown · 133 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Adipose Tissue and Metabolism #Analysis of variance #Anatomy #Anxiety #Biology #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Elevated plus maze #Gene #Genetics #Inbred strain #Internal medicine #Medicine #Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior #Open field #Psychiatry #Psychology #Strain (injury) #Stress Responses and Cortisol #Trait #Trait anxiety

paper · doi:10.1007/s10519-012-9572-8

published in Behavior Genetics 43(1), 34-50 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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