1Integrated Program in Neuroscience,McGill University, 2Douglas Mental Health University Institute,McGill University, 3Department of Psychiatry,McGill University, 4Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine,McGill University, 5Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health,McGill University
Summary
We developed an accelerated social defeat stress model for adolescent C57BL/6 mice, which works in both males and females and allows exposure during discrete adolescent periods. Exposure to this model induces social avoidance, but only in a subset of defeated male and female mice.
