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A Mouse Model of Subchronic and Mild Social Defeat Stress for Understanding Stress-induced Behavioral and Physiological Deficits
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How mice cope with stressful social situations
1Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. seh@harvard.edu
Cell
|October 25, 2007
Abstract:
Individuals differ greatly in their psychological responses to chronic stress. As a step toward understanding the neural basis for these individual differences, Krishnan et al. (2007) reveal molecular changes in the brain's reward circuits that make some mice resistant to the effects of social defeat.
