Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors
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.... However, most lesioning methods destroy areas larger than intended and may unintentionally remove connecting...an animal’s movement in an open field box or a circular corridor apparatus using a camera or tracking ... psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. In both diseases, animals have reduced...time in the open arm and were less risk averse.
Similar to the elevated plus maze, the light-dark box is...protected) area. When measuring the time spent in a particular part of the apparatus, it turned out that the...downregulating expression of miR124a achieved a similar improvement in the forced swim test.
Another brain...this further and showed that the activity of a particular subset of excitatory neurons (Drd1) in mPFC is...