Further validation of the affective bias test for predicting antidepressant and pro-depressant risk: effects of pharmacological and social manipulations in male and female rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 234, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 3105-3116

  Hinchcliffe, Justyna K ^a   Stuart, Sarah A ^a   Mendl, Michael ^a   Robinson, Emma S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective bias; Antidepressants; Corticosterone; Enrichment; Major depressive disorder; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; N METHYL BETA CARBOLINE 3 CARBOXAMIDE; VENLAFAXINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CARBOLINE DERIVATIVE;

AFFECTIVE BIAS; AFFECTIVE BIAS TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PLAY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; AFFECT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FORECASTING; MOOD DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CARBOLINES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REWARD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENLAFAXINE HYDROCHLORIDE;

EID: 85025466664     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-017-4687-5     Document Type: Article

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