Pipeline B - Emotionality
- Open Field test – spontaneous exploratory behaviour in a novel environment, anxiety
- Acoustic Startle & PPI - prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex: sensorimotor information processing; deficits are related to schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric diseases
- Light/Dark Box test – anxiety (brightness)
- Elevated Plus-Maze test – anxiety (height)
- Social Interaction test – anxiety (social phobia)
- Swim ability test – swim ability
- Tail Suspension test – depression-related behaviour
- Acute stress test – stress responsivity, function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis