Self-grooming is a complex innate behaviour with an evolutionarily conserved sequencing
pattern and is one of the most frequently performed behavioural activities in rodents. In this …

The basic science literature is replete with descriptions of naturally occurring or
experimentally induced pathological grooming behaviors in animals, which are widely …

Grooming is a commonplace, robust behavior in rodent species. It has been shown to be
highly sensitive to a number of experimental factors, making it an ideal target for …

129S1/SvImJ (129S1), NMRI and BALB/c mice are widely used in behavioural research,
demonstrating marked strain differences in their behavioural phenotypes. Grooming is a …

Self-grooming is an innate, cephalo-caudal progression of body cleaning behaviors that are
found in normal rodents but exhibit repetitive and stereotyped patterns in several mouse …

Since rodent self-grooming behaviours are elicited by both comfort and stressful conditions,
traditional measures such as duration, latency of onset and the number of bouts may be not …

Stress induced by social defeat is a strong modifier of animal anxiety and depression-like
phenotypes. Self-grooming is a common rodent behavior, and has an ordered cephalo …

In rodents, grooming is a complex and ethologically rich behavior, sensitive to stress and
various genetic and pharmacological manipulations, all of which may alter its gross activity …

Automated detection of complex animal behaviors remains a challenging problem in
neuroscience, particularly for behaviors that consist of disparate sequential motions …

The behavioral analysis of rodent grooming has clarified a number of important issues,
among them: 1. How are individual actions defined, and how are these actions linked …