Abstract
Commentary: The Risky Closed Economy: A Holistic, Longitudinal Approach to Studying Fear and Anxiety in Rodents.
Highlights
Reviewed by: Chong Chen, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan Igor Branchi, National Institute of Health (ISS), Italy
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Emotion Regulation and Processing, a section of the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Fear and anxiety are essential to survival because they elicit immediate responses to harm
Summary
The Risky Closed Economy: A Holistic, Longitudinal Approach to Studying Fear and Anxiety in Rodents by Schuessler, B. Through a comprehensive review of the most popular paradigms for rodents, recent work by Schuessler et al (2020) discusses the potential of the “Risky Closed Economy” (RCE) as a more realistic and holistic paradigm to study fear and anxiety. While previously employed in rats (Helmstetter and Fanselow, 1993; Kim et al, 2014; Pellman et al, 2015), the authors explore a possible adaptation of the RCE for mice.
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