Animal models of anxiety disorders and stress
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Animal models of anxiety disorders and stress.
Anxiety and stress-related disorders are severe psychiatric conditions that affect performance in daily tasks and represent a high cost to public health. The initial observation of Charles Darwin that animals and human beings share similar characteristics in the expression of emotion raise the possibility of studying the mechanisms of psychiatric disorders in other mammals (mainly rodents). The...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1516-4446
DOI: 10.1590/1516-4446-2013-1139