Journal
/
Comportamiento
/
Signal Attenuation as a Rat Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
JoVE Revista
Comportamiento
This content is Free Access.
JoVE Revista Comportamiento
Signal Attenuation as a Rat Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Signal Attenuation as a Rat Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

15,212 Views

•

09:29 min

•

January 09, 2015

DOI:

10.3791/52287-v

DOI:
10.3791/52287-v

•

09:29 min
January 09, 2015

•

4 Views
, , ,
1School of Psychological Sciences,Tel-Aviv University, 2Sagol School of Neuroscience,Tel-Aviv University

Summary

Automatically generated

The goal of the protocol described in this paper is to induce compulsive-like behavior in rats for the study of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This behavior is precipitated by attenuating a signal indicating that a lever-press response was effective in producing food.

Explore More Videos

Obsessive-compulsive DisorderOCDSignal AttenuationRat ModelLever-pressingFeedback CueCompulsive-like BehaviorExtinctionValidated ModelAnti-compulsive EffectsPro-compulsive EffectsNeural Substrate

Read Article

Cite this Article

Goltseker, K., Yankelevitch-Yahav, R., Albelda, N. S., Joel, D. Signal Attenuation as a Rat Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. J. Vis. Exp. (95), e52287, doi:10.3791/52287 (2015).

Download .ris file

Copy

Share Video

.

Copy