… evaluation of an affective bias test (ABT) for rats designed to test the hypothesis that drugs
with acute effects on affective bias in human will have the same effects in rodents (Figure 1a). …

… Taken together with the effects of these treatments in human volunteers and patients,
these studies suggest that the rodent affective bias test predicts both antidepressant and pro-…

… affective biases in the context of other reward-related deficits and examine how affective
biases … these selective behavioural assays and the neurobiological mechanisms for affective …

… positive bias during the choice test. The affective bias test was developed to quantify
affective biases in rodents by generating two independent memories learned under either an …

… affective bias task for the use with laboratory mice. Similarities in behavioural responses
between rats and mice indicate the potential of the testing … in laboratory rodents and support the …

… This clinical work into affective biases has also … of assays to study affective biases in rodents.
These animal studies suggest that, similar to humans, rodents in putative negative affective …

… We have previously found that affective biases, associated with learning and memory, are …
test if similar biases are observed in male and female Sprague Dawley (SD) rats. We also test …

… We investigated whether the affective bias test (ABT) could … A bias is observed during a
preference test when an animal's … an affective bias or reward‐induced positive bias respectively. …

… assays designed to measure biases in learning and memory or decision-making. Given the
proposed links between hormones and mood, we used the affective bias test … in rodents and …

… mechanism involving affective biases plays a … the affective bias test (ABT) [56,57]. This task
uses associative learning between a specific cue and reward to test the influence of affective …