Anxiety is a psychological, physiological, and behavioral state induced in animals and
humans by a threat to well-being or survival, either actual or potential. It is characterized by …

Animal models can certainly be useful to find out more about the biological bases of anxiety
disorders and develop new, more efficient pharmacological and/or behavioral treatments …

A model of the neuropsychology of anxiety is proposed. The model is based in the first
instance upon an analysis of the behavioural effects of the antianxiety drugs …

Molecular genetic studies of personality began with two high impact papers in 1996 that
showed provisional associations between the dopamine DRD4 exon III repeat region and …

The Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rats were originally selectively bred for increased
responses to an anticholinesterase agent. The FSL rat partially resembles depressed …

Introduction: Memory is defined as the ability to store, maintain and retrieve information.
Learning is the acquisition of information that changes behavior and memory. Stress …

This paper is a review of the results of the authors obtained in a long-term experiment on fox
domestication. Debatable issues of dog evolution are discussed in light of these results. It is …

Behavioral differences between inbred strains of mice and rats have a genetic basis that can
now be dissected using quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis. Over the last 10 years, a large …

Two animal models of trait anxiety, HAB/LAB rats and mice, are described, representing
inborn extremes in anxiety-related behavior. The comprehensive phenotypical …

The focus of this review is on progress achieved in identifying specific genes conferring risk
for anxiety disorders through the use of genetic animal models. We discuss gene-finding …