Confinement to the open arm of the elevated-plus maze as anxiety paradigm: Behavioral validation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 719-723

  Salomé, Nicolas ^a   Landgraf, Rainer ^b   Viltart, Odile ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping strategy; High anxiety related behavior; Open arm; Principal component analysis; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33745904766     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.3.719     Document Type: Article

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