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ReviewDialogues in clinical neuroscience2017

Behavioral methods to study anxiety in rodents.

Kimberly R Lezak, Galen Missig, William A Carlezon

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Review in Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 154 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
154citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.0field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

154 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 289 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Exploring emotional expression in invertebrates: mechanisms, functions and phylogeny.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  6. Anxiety and peripheral artery disease.Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2026
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  19. IRF8 deficiency causes anxiety-like behavior in a sex-dependent manner.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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94 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kimberly R LezakBehavioral Genetics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
Galen MissigBehavioral Genetics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
William A CarlezonBehavioral Genetics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
McLean Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Roles of nuleus accumbens CREB and Kappa function in depressionR01MH063266 · NIMH · MC LEAN HOSPITAL (BELMONT, MA) · PI CARLEZON, WILLIAM A. · 2001 to 2025
$9.1M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH063266
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress is a precipitating factor for anxiety-related disorders, which are among the leading forms of psychiatric illness and impairment in the modern world. Rodent-based behavioral tests and models are widely used to understand the mechanisms by which stress triggers anxiety-related behaviors and to identify new treatments for anxiety-related disorders. Although substantial progress has been made and many of the key neural circuits and molecular pathways mediating stress responsiveness have been characterized, these advances have thus far failed to translate into fundamentally new treatments that are safer and more efficacious in humans. The purpose of this article is to describe methods that have been historically used for this type of research and to highlight new approaches that align with recent conceptualizations of disease symptomatology and that may ultimately prove to be more fruitful in facilitating the development of improved therapeutics.

Indexed as

Behavior, AnimalDisease Models, AnimalAnimalsAnxiety DisordersBiomedical ResearchMiceRatsTranslational Research, Biomedicalanxietyhumanrodent modeltranslational behavioral test

Identifiers

PMID28867942
PMCPMC5573562
OpenAlexW2984369896

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Registered trials

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