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. 2020 Oct 1;88(7):514-516.
doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.07.010.

Cumulative Stress Burden on Motivated Action Revealed

Henry W Kietzman  1 , Shannon L Gourley  2
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Cumulative Stress Burden on Motivated Action Revealed

Henry W Kietzman et al. Biol Psychiatry. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Separating seeking and taking.
Barthas and colleagues (3) develop a procedure that rapidly captures – and dissociates – the mouse’s propensity to work for palatable foods and consume those foods. The task provides a platform for quantifying stress burden on motivated behavior over time. Illustration credit: Aylet Allen.
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