Cited by 1,198Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorStress Responses and CortisolTreatment of Major Depression

The ascent of mouse: advances in modelling human depression and anxiety

Cryan, John F., Holmes, Andrew·2005·Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Abstract

Psychiatry has proven to be among the least penetrable clinical disciplines for the development of satisfactory in vivo model systems for evaluating novel treatment approaches. However, mood and anxiety disorders remain poorly understood and inadequately treated. With the explosion in the use of genetically modified mice, enormous research efforts have been focused on developing mouse models of psychiatric disorders. The success of this approach is largely contingent on the usefulness of available behavioural models of depression- and anxiety-related behaviours in mice. Here, we assess the current status of research into developing appropriate tests for assessing such behaviours.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/nrd1825

Cites

189 of 189 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Exploration-based tasks cannot distinguish a reduced anxiety phenotype from increased novelty-seeking, exploration or impulsive approach behavior.

    “A further confound of exploration-based tasks is that they cannot distinguish a reduced anxiety phenotype from increased novelty-seeking, exploration or impulsive approach behavior23.”

    From Resolving the neural circuits of anxiety (2015) · cites this paper as [23]

  • To provide insights about the pathophysiology of anxiety disorders, measurements of anxiety-like behaviors in animals must meet the essential criterion of validity.

    “To provide insights about the pathophysiology of anxiety disorders, measurements of anxiety-like behaviors in animals must meet the essential criterion of validity (see Box 1) (refs. 22,23).”

    From Resolving the neural circuits of anxiety (2015) · cites this paper as [23]

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Cryan, J. F., & Holmes, A.
Affiliations
  • Novartis (Switzerland) (CH)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
  • Cryan, John F.
  • Holmes, Andrew
Venue
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Published
2005-09-01
Volume
4
Issue
9
Pages
775-790
ISSN
  • 1474-1776 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-1784
OpenAlex
W2793634050
Cited by
1,198
References
189
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 50 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 70 · 2017: 58 · 2016: 73 · 2015: 61 · 2014: 78 · 2013: 74 · 2012: 92
FWCI
4.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
Keywords
mouse model, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, genetically modified mice, behavioural models, mental illness, in vivo models
MeSH terms
Animals, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, Mice, Transgenic, Mice

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review