The author explores the viability of a comparative approach to personality research. A
review of the diverse animal-personality literature suggests that (a) most research uses trait …

Habituation to a novel environment in rodents is commonly defined as a change in
exploratory or locomotor activity over time (intrasession) or with repeated exposures …

A model of the neuropsychology of anxiety is proposed. The model is based in the first
instance upon an analysis of the behavioural effects of the antianxiety drugs …

Dr. Jacqueline N. Crawley, author of the First and Second Editions of What's Wrong with My
Mouse? Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout Mice, continues to field calls …

Three defining clinical symptoms of autism are aberrant reciprocal social interactions,
deficits in social communication, and repetitive behaviors, including motor stereotypies and …

Leptokurtic distributions of movement distances observed in field-release studies, in which
some individuals move long distances while most remain at or near their release point, are a …

Difficulties in fine-mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) are a major impediment to progress
in the molecular dissection of complex traits in mice. Here we show that genome-wide high …

High-resolution mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in animals has proved to be difficult
because the large effect sizes detected in crosses between inbred strains are often caused …

Consistent differences in human behaviour are often explained with reference to personality
traits. Recent evidence suggests that similar traits are widespread across the entire animal …

Childhood trauma is known to increase risk for emotional disorders and addiction. However,
little is currently understood about the neurodevelopmental basis of these effects, or how …