ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2020
To Approach or Avoid: An Introductory Overview of the Study of Anxiety Using Rodent Assays.
Review in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
109 citing papers in PubMed, 165 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Chemically Characterized Polyherbal Extract Selectively Attenuates Chronic Unpredictable Stress-Induced Redox-Sensitive, Inflammatory, and Metabolic Alterations in Female Rats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Assessment of auditory and vestibular function and gene therapy in the Snell's waltzer mouse model of human deafness and balance dysfunction.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2026Article
- Hypothalamic representation of aggressiveness across mouse strains.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Article
- A multi-target approach using Moringa oleifera leaf extract in ameliorating PTZ-induced epilepsy-like neurobehavior in male rats: in vivo and in silico study.Metabolic brain disease · 2026Article
- Age-Associated Behavioral Alterations in Laboratory-Housed Octodon degus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Article
- Inflammatory reprogramming of immature oligodendrocytes perturbs myelination and neurodevelopment in a dual-hit model of preterm brain injury.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Partner separation and sex contribute to anxiety-like behavior, but partner separation alone amplifies hippocampal inflammation following immune challenge.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2026Article
- Considerations for the selection and phenotyping of mouse models for the study of Alzheimer's disease.STAR protocols · 2026Review
- Genetic Architecture of Addiction-Relevant Behaviors in Outbred Sprague-Dawley Rats Reveals Loci for Anxiety-Like and Nociceptive Traits.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2026Article
- Neuropharmacological Validation ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Article
- Divergent behavioral strategies in Wistar and Wistar-Kyoto rats in a naturalistic task reveal mood disorder phenotypes.iScience · 2026Article
- Metformin Treatment Shows Beneficial Effects on RTT-Associated Phenotypical Deficits inPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Negative affective states are not detected in rats following an intravenous self-administration regimen leading to incubation of oxycodone craving.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Posterior parietal cortex oscillatory activity reflects persistent spatial memory impairments induced by early hippocampal amyloidosis in male mice.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- The nBAF complex subunit CREST/SS18L1 regulates hippocampal memory processes via tyrosine 397 and histone acetyltransferase CBP.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Article
- Genetic Architecture of Addiction-Relevant Behaviors in Outbred Sprague-Dawley Rats Reveals Loci for Anxiety-Like and Nociceptive Traits.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
49 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Anxiety is a widely studied phenomenon in behavioral neuroscience, but the recent literature lacks an overview of the major conceptual framework underlying anxiety research to introduce young researchers to the field. In this mini-review article, which is aimed toward new undergraduate and graduate students, we discuss how researchers exploit the approach-avoidance conflict, an internal conflict rodents face between exploration of novel environments and avoidance of danger, to inform rodent assays that allow for the measurement of anxiety-related behavior in the laboratory. We review five widely-used rodent anxiety assays, consider the pharmacological validity of these assays, and discuss neural circuits that have recently been shown to modulate anxiety using the assays described. Finally, we offer related lines of inquiry and comment on potential future directions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.