Psychiatric Vulnerability, Mood, and Anxiety Disorders

Animal Models of Mood and Anxiety Disorders: The Pursuit of Standardization and Recognition of the Complex Neurobiology of Human Mental Health.- The Open Field Test.- The Light Dark Box Test in the Mouse.- The Olfactory Bulbectomized Rodent Remains a Valuable Preclinical Model of Depression and Antidepressant Activity.- Marble-Burying in Mice.- How the Sucrose Preference Succeeds or Fails as a Measurement of Anhedonia.- A Vogel Conflict Test Using Food Reinforcement in Mice.- Fear Conditioning in Laboratory Rodents.- Learned Helplessness in Rodents.- Chronobiology of Mood States: Introducing Circadian Animal Models.- Telemetry in Rats and Mice: Methodological Considerations and Example Studies of Stress and Anxiety in Ground-Based Spaceflight Analogs.- Utility and Implementation of Oral Corticosteroid Exposure in Behavioral Neuroscience Research with Rodents.- Animal Models for Mania.- Social Behavior Testing in Mice: Social Interest, Recognition, and Aggression.- Rodent Models for Studying the Impact of Variation in Early Life Mother-Infant Interactions on Mood and Anxiety.- Principles of Recording Rodent Ultrasonic Vocalizations.- Development of a Selectively Bred Mouse Model of Dominance and Submissiveness: Technical Considerations.- Prediction of Susceptibility/Resilience Toward Animal Models of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).