Boldness in animal personality studies is measured using a range of different behavioural
assays, including responses to novel objects, novel environments and threatening stimuli …

Anxiety‐related diseases are more than twice as common in women than in men, and in
women, symptoms may be exacerbated during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle …

Surveys provide a low-cost means to obtain large amounts of data that are ideal for
conducting exploratory research, and they are becoming an increasingly valuable tool in a …

The maternal environment influences a broad range of phenotypic outcomes for offspring,
with anxiety-like behavior being particularly susceptible to maternal environmental …

Background: To date, despite the substantial literature investigating how rats prefer to be
kept in captivity, no research has been conducted to assess the housing, husbandry and …

Studies from the last two decades have pointed to multiple mechanisms of fear. For
responding to predators, there is a group of highly interconnected hypothalamic nuclei …

Behavioral response to a new environment of Wistar and WAG/Rij rats with absence and/or
audiogenic seizures (AGSs) was investigated. Behavior was observed in open-field (OF) …

Early in ontogeny, young rats must be able to detect dangerous stimuli and to exhibit
appropriate defensive behaviors. Different nuclei of the amygdala mediate unconditioned …

Stress exposure during development may influence adulthood stress response severity. The
present study investigates persisting effects of two adolescent stressors upon adulthood …

Prey organisms exhibit primary adaptations that contribute to avoid predators and secondary
mechanisms that allow them to defend themselves. Particularly behavioral adaptations allow …