This article describes the use of chronic resident intruder social stress as an ethologically relevant paradigm to model postpartum depression and anxiety in lactating rodents.
Carini, L. M., Murgatroyd, C. A., Nephew, B. C. Using Chronic Social Stress to Model Postpartum Depression in Lactating Rodents. J. Vis. Exp. (76), e50324, doi:10.3791/50324 (2013).