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Social Isolation Model: A Noninvasive Rodent Model of Stress and Anxiety
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Balancing anxiety and social desire
Dakota Blackman1, Annegret L Falkner2
1Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Nature Neuroscience
|March 6, 2021
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