Animal models of anxiety disorders in rats and mice: Some conceptual issues

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 495-506

  Steimer, Thierry ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal model; Anxiety; Coping strategy; Defense; Threat

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONFLICT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FACE VALIDITY; FRUSTRATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; THREAT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; RATS;

EID: 84857675913     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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