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ReviewClinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology2020

A Review of Behavioral Tests to Evaluate Different Types of Anxiety and Anti-anxiety Effects.

Himanshu, Dharmila, Deepa Sarkar, Nutan

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Review in Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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78citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

78 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 198 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

HimanshuHIMT College of Pharmacy, Greater Noida, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-6857
DharmilaSchool of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-5075
Deepa SarkarHIMT College of Pharmacy, Greater Noida, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5369-2926
NutanHIMT College of Pharmacy, Greater Noida, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2961-0975
Hindu College of Pharmacy · INJamia Hamdard · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behavioral tests are very useful to understand the Neuro-psychotic disease and also helpful in finding the treatment of the particular disease. Nowadays various tests are available to evaluate the anxiolytics effect of a new entity or even for comparative studies with the standard drug. As per the ethics, a new compound or drug believes to have possible pharmacological effects should be tested on animals before tested on humans which have similar physiology than humans. First, rats were used for behavioral test for evaluation of anti-anxiety drug but later on the various strain of mice were added for evaluation of anxiolytics because of better genetic possibilities than rats. In this review article, we have discussed the most commonly used behavioral tests used to evaluate the anti-anxiety effect. Anxiolytics are the agent which are used to elevate anxiety effect produced due to any cause. The various parameter will be undertaken for the better and precise evaluation of anxiolytics.

Indexed as

AnxietyElevated plus mazeMarble-burying behaviorThe hole-board testThe light and dark boxThe open-field test

Identifiers

PMID32702213
PMCPMC7382999
OpenAlexW3044860056

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