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Wait, you can depress rodents by subjecting them to "unpredictable stress"? That's really interesting, what does that mean exactly?
by nerfhammer 14y ago
Wait, you can depress rodents by subjecting them to "unpredictable stress"? That's really interesting, what does that mean exactly?
- scott_s 14y agoI'm going to guess it's similar to the experiments described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
- ceph_ 14y agoI know in previous studies of stress in baby lab mice, handling by lab people was used as the stress inducer. Not sure what they use for full grown lab mice.