Exploratory drive, fear, and anxiety are dissociable and independent components in foraging mice

Abstract: Anxiety-like behavior of rodents is frequently accompanied by reduced exploration. Here, we identify dissociable components of anxiety, fear, and exploratory drive of sated and foraging mice. With the help of behavioral assays, including the open field task, elevated plus maze, dark–light transition task, and beetle mania task, we demonstrate a general increase in exploration by food restriction. Food-restricted mice bred for high anxiety behavior (HAB) showed ameliorated anxiety- but not fear-related behavior. By means of principal component analysis, we identified three independent components, which resemble the behavioral dimensions proposed by Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (approach behavior, avoidance behavior, and decision making). Taken together, we demonstrate anxiolytic consequences of food restriction in a mouse model of anxiety disorders that can be dissociated from a general increase in foraging behavior

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Translational psychiatry. - 11, 1 (2021) , 318, ISSN: 2158-3188

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Freiburg
(wer)
Universität
(wann)
2021
Urheber
Heinz, Daniel E.
Schöttle, Vivian
Nemcova, Paulina
Binder, Florian P.
Ebert, Tim
Domschke, Katharina
Wotjak, Carsten Tobias

DOI
10.1038/s41398-021-01458-9
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2188556
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