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The importance of cognitive phenotypes in experimental modeling of animal anxiety and depression.
Neural plasticity - 1 Jan 2007
Kalueff Allan V, Murphy Dennis L
Abstract excerpt
Cognitive dysfunctions are commonly seen in many stress-related disorders, including anxiety and depression-the world's most common neuropsychiatric illnesses. Various genetic, pharmacological, and behavioral animal models have long been used to establish animal anxiety-like and depression-like phenotypes, as well as to assess their memory, learning, and other cognitive functions. Mounting clinical and animal...
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