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Premorbid Characteristics of the SAPAP3-Mouse Model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Behavior, Neuroplasticity, and Psilocybin Treatment
2024-09-23
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<h4>Background</h4> SAPAP3-knockout (KO) mice develop excessive self-grooming behavior at 4-6 months of age, serving as a model for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Given that anxiety often precedes OCD diagnosis in humans, this study investigated whether juvenile SAPAP3-KO mice exhibit anxiety-like behaviors before developing the self-grooming phenotype, and whether such behaviors respond to psilocybin treat...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 26d03b8d-7d0d-5873-a7d5-9179e37bf3ed
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.09.22.614317
