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Behavioural despair in rats: a new model sensitive to antidepressant treatments.

Roger D. Porsolt, +3 more
- 15 Feb 1978 - 
- Vol. 47, Iss: 4, pp 379-391
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Positive findings with atypical antidepressant drugs such as iprindole and mianserin suggest that the method may be capable of discovering new antidepressants hitherto undetectable with classical pharmacological tests.
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This article is published in European Journal of Pharmacology.The article was published on 1978-02-15. It has received 3030 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mianserin & Iprindole.

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Gestational stress induces depressive-like and anxiety-like phenotypes through epigenetic regulation of BDNF expression in offspring hippocampus

TL;DR: The results suggest that gestational stress may be a suitable model for understanding the behavioral and molecular epigenetic changes observed in patients with depression.
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Parity modifies the effects of fluoxetine and corticosterone on behavior, stress reactivity, and hippocampal neurogenesis.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the postpartum may inherently protect against some deleterious effects of high CORT but also confer resistance to the neurogenic and endocrine effects of FLX.
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Shuttle-box deficits induced by chronic variable stress : Reversal by imipramine administration

TL;DR: The association between chronic exposure to unpredictable stressors with imipramine resulted in a significant reversal of escape deficits and a possible involvement of beta-adrenergic sites on this behavioral response is discussed.
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"Bedside-to-Bench" Behavioral Outcomes in Animal Models of Pain: Beyond the Evaluation of Reflexes.

TL;DR: This review summarizes and discusses the most important nonstandard outcomes for pain assessment in preclinical studies and the advantages and drawbacks of these techniques are considered, and their potential impact on the validation of potential analgesics is evaluated.
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Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a learned-helplessness model of depression and developed a set of guidelines for depression and learned helplessness, including depression, anxiety and unpredictability, childhood failure, sudden psychosomatic death controllability.
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Depression: a new animal model sensitive to antidepressant treatments

R D Porsolt, +2 more
- 21 Apr 1977 - 
TL;DR: Results presented below indicate that immobility is reduced by different treatments known to be therapeutic in depression including three drugs, iprindole, mianserin and viloxazine which although clinically active show little or no ‘antidepressant’ activity in the usual animal tests.
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The making and breaking of affectional bonds. I. Aetiology and psychopathology in the light of attachment theory. An expanded version of the Fiftieth Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 19 November 1976.

TL;DR: Though attachment theory incorporates much psychoanalytic thinking, many of its principles derive from ethology, cognitive psychology and control theory, and it conforms to the ordinary criteria of a scientific discipline.
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Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock

TL;DR: Dogs which had first learned to panel press in a harness in order to escape shock subsequently showed normal acquisition of escape/ avoidance behavior in a shuttle box, supporting a learned "helplessness" explanation of interference with escape responding.
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Molecular geometry of inhibitors of the uptake of catecholamines and serotonin in synaptosomal preparations of rat brain.

TL;DR: The tubular configuration of EXP-561 may be the most appropriate for blocking serotonin uptake and the conformation defined by the combination resulting from superimposition of the CP-24-441 and desipramine structures is apparently optimal for blocking norepinephrine uptake.
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