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Chronic Stress Shifts Effort-Related Choice Behavior in a Y-Maze Barrier Task in Mice
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Chronic Stress Shifts Effort-Related Choice Behavior in a Y-Maze Barrier Task in Mice

Chronic Stress Shifts Effort-Related Choice Behavior in a Y-Maze Barrier Task in Mice

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August 13, 2020

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10.3791/61548-v

DOI:
10.3791/61548-v

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09:37 min
August 13, 2020

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1Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Area,The State University of New Jersey, 2Graduate Program in Neuroscience,Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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The Y-maze barrier task is a behavior test that examines motivation to expend effort for reward. Here, we discuss testing multiple well-validated chronic stressors including chronic corticosterone and social defeat stress with this behavior, as well as the novel chronic non-discriminatory social defeat stress (CNSDS), which is effective in females.

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Dieterich, A., Yohn, C. N., Samuels, B. A. Chronic Stress Shifts Effort-Related Choice Behavior in a Y-Maze Barrier Task in Mice. J. Vis. Exp. (162), e61548, doi:10.3791/61548 (2020).

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