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ArticleScientific reports2020

Effects of different social experiences on emotional state in mice.

Viktoria Krakenberg, Sophie Siestrup, Rupert Palme, Sylvia Kaiser, Norbert Sachser, S Helene Richter

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Viktoria Krakenberg *Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Badestraße 13, 48149, Münster, Germany. viktoria.krakenberg@uni-muenster.de.
Sophie Siestrup *Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Badestraße 13, 48149, Münster, Germany.
Rupert PalmeDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
Sylvia KaiserDepartment of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Badestraße 13, 48149, Münster, Germany.
Norbert SachserDepartment of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Badestraße 13, 48149, Münster, Germany.
S Helene RichterDepartment of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Badestraße 13, 48149, Münster, Germany.
University of Münster · DEUniversity of Veterinary Medicine Vienna · AT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A comprehensive understanding of animals' emotions can be achieved by combining cognitive, behavioural, and physiological measures. Applying such a multi-method approach, we here examined the emotional state of mice after they had made one of three different social experiences: either a mildly "adverse", a "beneficial", or a "neutral" experience. Using a recently established touchscreen paradigm, cognitive judgement bias was assessed twice, once before and once after the respective experience. Anxiety-like behaviour was examined using a standardised battery of behavioural tests and faecal corticosterone metabolite concentrations were measured. Surprisingly, only minor effects of the social experiences on the animals' cognitive judgement bias and no effects on anxiety-like behaviour and corticosterone metabolite levels were found. It might be speculated that the experiences provided were not strong enough to exert the expected impact on the animals' emotional state. Alternatively, the intensive training procedure necessary for cognitive judgement bias testing might have had a cognitive enrichment effect, potentially countering external influences. While further investigations are required to ascertain the specific causes underlying our findings, the present study adds essential empirical data to the so far scarce amount of studies combining cognitive, behavioural, and physiological measures of emotional state in mice.

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AnimalsAnxietyBehavior, AnimalCorticosteroneEmotionsFemaleJudgmentMaleMental HealthMiceMice, Inbred C57BLCorticosterone

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PMCPMC7498458
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