The "Mood disorders and addiction" includes a battery of tests dedicated to the study of pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of psychiatric disorders such as mood disorders, addictions or schizophrenia. The tests in question allow a targeted evaluation of the functions of brain areas that appear to be disregolated in such diseases and the possible effect that a drug can exercise in restoring the physiological functions.
AVAILABLE TESTS
- Elevated plus-maze
- Open Field
- Forced swim test
- Tail suspension test
- Active/Passive avoidance
- Prepulse inhibition
- Two-bottle choice test
- Drinking in the Dark
- Place preference test
- Social interaction test
- Novelty-induced grooming test
- Activity Cage test
- Unpredictable chronic mild stress
- Sucrose intake test