Authors: A Ya Bakshaliyeva
Publish Date: 2010/07/29
Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 130-138
Abstract
We examined the development of a depression state induced by longlasting stressing of rats preliminarily selected according to their active or passive behavior pattern Stress was induced using a technique of sensory contact with aggressive individuals The pathologically modified state in animals of the above groups developed according to dissimilar scenarios As a result a depressive state similar to anxious depression developed in active animals while psychoemotional disorders similar to a melancholytype depression were formed in passive rats Therefore the symptomatic heterogeneity of depression is to a considerable extent determined by individual/typological peculiarities of behavior passive vs active and can be rather clearly identified using the sensory contact technique
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