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. 2018 Apr;43(5):931-933.
doi: 10.1038/npp.2017.260. Epub 2017 Oct 31.

Too Depressed to Swim or Too Afraid to Stop? A Reinterpretation of the Forced Swim Test as a Measure of Anxiety-Like Behavior

Jeffrey Anyan  1 , Shimon Amir  1
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Too Depressed to Swim or Too Afraid to Stop? A Reinterpretation of the Forced Swim Test as a Measure of Anxiety-Like Behavior

Jeffrey Anyan et al. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018 Apr.
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