World Journal of Neuroscience

Vol.3 No.2(2013), Paper ID 31623, 10 pages

DOI:10.4236/wjns.2013.32012

 

Helplessness-like escape deficits of NIH-HS rats predict passive behavior in the forced swimming test: Relevance for the concurrent validity of rat models of depression

 

Marta Palència, Sira Díaz-Morán, Carme Mont-Cardona, Toni Cañete, Gloria Blázquez, Esther Martínez-Membrives, Regina López-Aumatell, Adolf Tobeña, Alberto Fernández-Teruel

 

Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine, Institute of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

Copyright © 2013 Marta Palència, Sira Díaz-Morán, Carme Mont-Cardona, Toni Cañete, Gloria Blázquez, Esther Martínez-Membrives, Regina López-Aumatell, Adolf Tobeña, Alberto Fernández-Teruel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Palència, M. , Díaz-Morán, S. , Mont-Cardona, C. , Cañete, T. , Blázquez, G. , Martínez-Membrives, E. , López-Aumatell, R. , Tobeña, A. and Fernández-Teruel, A. (2013) Helplessness-like escape deficits of NIH-HS rats predict passive behavior in the forced swimming test: Relevance for the concurrent validity of rat models of depression. World Journal of Neuroscience, 3, 83-92. doi: 10.4236/wjns.2013.32012.

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