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The HR/LR model: Further evidence as an animal model of sensation seeking.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Jul 2009
Blanchard Mathieu M, Mendelsohn Daniel, Stamp Jennifer A
Abstract excerpt
Sensation seeking is a personality trait characterized by risk-taking and the desire to experience novel stimuli. Evidence suggests that sensation seeking may increase an individual's psychological and neurobiological vulnerabilities to drug abuse. One potential animal model of human sensation seeking is high response to novelty in rats. High responders (HRs) prefer a novel environment to a familiar one and show...
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