Repeated assessment of anxiety-like behavior in mice: a new tool with increasedreliability and consistency

TD Prevot, KA Misquitta, C Fee, D Newton, E Sibille… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Anxiety is a debilitating disorder with high prevalence and co-morbidity across multiple
psychiatric diseases. Evidence from both clinical and preclinical studies suggest that the …

Residual avoidance: a new, consistent and repeatable readout of chronic stress-induced conflict anxiety reversible by antidepressant treatment

TD Prevot, KA Misquitta, C Fee, DF Newton… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
Stress-related illnesses such as major depressive and anxiety disorders are characterized
by maladaptive responses to stressful life events. Chronic stress-based animal models have …

Improving anxiety research: novel approach to reveal trait anxiety through summary measures of multiple states

ZK Varga, D Pejtsik, M Toth, Z Balogh, M Aliczki… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The reliability and validity of preclinical anxiety testing is essential for translational research
outcomes. However, widely-used anxiety tests lack inter-test correlations and have …

[PDF][PDF] Gyula Y Balla, Levente Kontra, Zsófia Eckert, Zsolt Borhegyi, Éva Mikics* equal contribution corresponding authors

ZK Varga, D Pejtsik, M Tóth, Z Balogh, M Aliczki… - researchgate.net
The reliability and validity of preclinical anxiety testing is essential for translational research
outcomes. However, widely-used anxiety tests lack inter-test correlations and have …

[HTML][HTML] Unpredictable Mixed-Valence Outcomes Induce a Chronic and Reversible Generalized Anxiety-like Phenotype in Male Mice

DW Crawford, KR Patel, A Swiecka, J Bond… - … Psychiatry Global Open …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Clinical anxiety is a generalized state characterized by feelings of
apprehensive expectation and is distinct from momentary responses such as fear or stress …

[HTML][HTML] Animal Models of Anxiety and Depression: Exploring the Underlying Mechanisms of Sex Differences

LB Tucker, MG Oyola, D Suchecki… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Anxiety and depression carry a significant burden and disproportionally affect more women
than men (Balta et al., 2019). Moreover, men and women differ in symptomatology and …

Co-expression network of mRNAs and lncRNAs regulated by stress-linked behavioral assays

J Zhang, M Xue, Y Mei, Z Li, Z Ceng, Y Li, Y Zhang… - …, 2020 - Springer
Rationale Mood-related behavioral assays, designed typically on rodents' natural aversion
to certain threats, are useful in studying the mechanisms of mood and in discovering …

Punishment Risk Task: Monitoring anxiogenic states during goal directed actions in mice

KE Parker, JS Arackal, SC Hunter, JG McCall - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Canonical preclinical studies of anxiety-related behavioral states have been critical to
developing mechanistic insights and therapeutics for neuropsychiatric disorders. Most of …

Reliability of mouse behavioural tests of anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of anxiolytics

M Rosso, R Wirz, AV Loretan, NA Sutter… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Animal research on anxiety and anxiety disorders relies on valid animal models of anxiety.
However, the validity of widely used rodent behavioural tests of anxiety has repeatedly been …

Modeling anxiety in healthy humans: a key intermediate bridge between basic and clinical sciences

C Grillon, OJ Robinson, B Cornwell… - …, 2019 - nature.com
Animal models of anxiety disorders are important for elucidating neurobiological defense
mechanisms. However, animal models are limited when it comes to understanding the more …