Models of anxiety: Responses of rats to novelty in an open space and an enclosed space

Ennaceur, A.; Michalikova, S.; Chazot, P.L.

doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2006.03.016

Models of anxiety: Responses of rats to novelty in an open space and an enclosed space

Exposure to novelty has been shown to induce anxiety responses in a variety of behavioural paradigms. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether exposition of naïve rats to novelty would result in a comparable or a different pattern of responses in an open space versus enclosed s…