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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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Antidepressant-like responses to the combined sigma and 5-HT1A receptor agonist OPC-14523.

TL;DR: The antidepressant-like activity of a novel compound, OPC-14523, was investigated in comparison with the conventional antidepressants, fluoxetine and imipramine, and failed to inhibit 5-HT reuptake at oral doses below 100mg/kg.
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Neuroplastin-55 binds to and signals through the fibroblast growth factor receptor

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that narpin has an antidepressive‐like effect in rats subjected to the forced swim test, suggesting that Np55‐induced signaling may be involved in synaptic plasticity in vivo.
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Maternal deprivation induces depressive-like behaviours only in female rats.

TL;DR: The present results suggest the use of the MD model, especially in females, as a model of the dysthymia, a mild chronic-depressive condition, which has been related to poorer maternal relationship.
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Cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonism prevents neurochemical and behavioural deficits induced by chronic phencyclidine.

TL;DR: An antipsychotic-like profile of the CB1 cannabinoid receptor antagonist AM251 is suggested which, by restoring the function of the endocannabinoid system, might directly or indirectly normalize some of the neurochemical maladaptations present in this schizophrenia-like animal model.
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Human interferon-α increases immobility in the forced swimming test in rats

TL;DR: It is suggested that human IFN-α has a greater potential for inducing increase of the immobility in the rat forced swimming test than humanIFN-β and -γ, and that the effect of human IFn-α might not be mediated through IFN -α/β receptors.
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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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