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anxiety maze
Animal Models of Anxiety: A Beginner's Guide
January 3, 2017
We routinely count on animal models to understand complex human emotions and experiences, many of which cannot reasonably be expected to fully recapitulate in…
EthoVisionXT + the Open Field Test
January 14, 2016
Imagine you are dropped in the center of a wide open field. Would you explore the entire area? Or hunker down around the edges, fearing predators and other…
Water Associated Zero Maze for PTSD Modeling
November 19, 2015
The human response to trauma – even the same kind of trauma – is variable. Even a diagnosis of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, does not mean that each…
Safety in the Shadows: Using the Light/Dark Maze in Anxiety Research
October 14, 2015
Introduction As we’ve seen in previous studies, mice tend to avoid well-lit areas in favor of the dark. This predisposition is personified in the form of the…
Novel Object Recognition Tests: Objects in Maze may Seem Newer than they Appear
October 7, 2015
Introduction Memory tests have been used in psychological experiments since the beginning of it's birth as an experimental discipline. For human participants,…
Differences in Stress Response in the Morris Water Maze and the Barnes Maze
September 30, 2015
Last time on the Maze Engineers blog we covered sex differences in performance on the forced swim trial. Today’s special will also involve water-based tasks,…
Forced Swim Test in Mice: Studying Anxiety Across Genders
September 23, 2015
In today’s installment of the Maze Engineers blog, we’ll be exploring more sex differences in maze studies. This time, we’ll be looking at the Forced Swim Test…
Using Zero Mazes to Scare Away Anxiety
June 3, 2015
Zero Maze Test Since we’re talking about running tests on mice the method of choice used in these studies is, you guessed it, mazes. The study we’ll be…