A test to identify judgement bias in mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-54

  Boleij, Hetty ^a,b   Klooster, José van't ^a,b   Lavrijsen, Marla ^a,b   Kirchhoff, Susanne ^a,b   Arndt, Saskia S ^a,b   Ohl, Frauke ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

129P3 mice; Anxiety; BALB c mice; Behaviour; Judgement bias; Odour conditioning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROTEIN C FOS;

129 P3 J MOUSE; ALMOND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BALB CJ MOUSE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; JUDGEMENT BIAS; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PALATABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RED LIGHT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WHITE LIGHT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; JUDGMENT; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ODORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861535453     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.04.039     Document Type: Article

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