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1Neurobiology of anxiety and mood disorders, University of Nantes, Nantes, France. michel.bourin@univ-nantes.fr.
Abstract:
This chapter describes the various animal models that seem relevant to the development of anxiolytic drugs, as well as the human models of induced anxiety, or more precisely the panic inducers including cholecystokinin. It is also mentioned the theoretical model of Deakin and Graeff which seems to keep all its relevance. The knock animals are evoked as relevant tools as well as a new optogenetic technique that needs to be used in this field.
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