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Trait and state anxiety in animal models: Is there correlation?
Neuroscience letters - 6 Feb 2009
Goes Tiago Costa, Antunes Fabrício Dias, Teixeira-Silva Flavia
Abstract excerpt
It is believed that subjects with high trait anxiety levels tend to present state anxiety reactions with greater intensity than individuals with low trait anxiety levels. In order to verify if this premise is valid for animal models of anxiety, the present work investigated the possible correlation between two behavioral tests: the elevated plus-maze, a classic model of state-anxiety, and the free-exploratory...
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