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An Unpredictable Chronic Mild Stress Protocol for Instigating Depressive Symptoms, Behavioral Changes and Negative Health Outcomes in Rodents
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2015
The unpredictable chronic mild stress (UCMS) protocol is a validated method for studying behavioral and physiological changes associated with chronic stress and depressive symptoms. Eight weeks of imposition of the UCMS protocol induces behavioral changes and poor health outcomes in rodents of either gender.
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Nest Building as an Indicator of Health and Welfare in Laboratory Mice
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2013
We demonstrate the utility of nest building behavior in laboratory mice as an indicator of welfare. Nest scoring is a sensitive technique that is altered by temperature, illness, and aggression. The time to integrate into nest test (TINT) is a simple cage-side assessment that can detect postoperative pain.
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Behavioral Phenotyping of Murine Disease Models with the Integrated Behavioral Station (INBEST)
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2015
Prolonged and comprehensive monitoring of mice in a home-cage environment provides a deeper understanding of aberrant behavior in murine models of brain diseases. This paper describes the Integrated Behavioral Station (INBEST) as the key component of contemporary behavioral analysis.
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The Forced Swim Test as a Model of Depressive-like Behavior
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2015
This protocol describes the forced swim test, which is used for the study of depressive-like behavior in rodents. This procedure involves placing an animal in a container filled with water that eventually will lead to the exhibition of immobility behavior, which is considered to reflect behavioral despair.
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Nest Building Behavior as an Early Indicator of Behavioral Deficits in Mice
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2019
Here, we present a protocol to quantify nest building behavior in mice, which is known to be impaired in several neurological disorders and diseases. This protocol examines the utility of four materials and offers the opportunity to quantify the rater agreement in scoring, improving the validity and reliability of the assay.
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Perceived risks and benefits help determine whether a person accepts, avoids, or continues a health-related action. Their influence operates alongside knowledge, self-efficacy, social influences, environmental conditions, and reinforcement rather than independently. Clinicians can therefore examine how patients interpret a choice and identify which modifiable factor may be preventing prevention, treatment adherence, or self-management.
Self-efficacy, or confidence in one's ability to carry out an action, affects how a person approaches choices such as medication use, physical activity, diet, screening, or help-seeking. When clinicians consider this factor, they can distinguish limited confidence from limited knowledge and tailor counseling, goal setting, or monitoring toward a more workable behavior change strategy.
Social influences and environmental conditions can support or obstruct a desired action, even when a patient understands its potential value. Health Behavior is therefore not explained solely by individual knowledge or motivation. Considering these surrounding factors helps clinical professionals identify barriers and design supportive environments that make prevention, treatment adherence, and self-management more feasible.
Assessment examines the factors connected with a patient's decisions and responses to care, including knowledge, perceived risks and benefits, self-efficacy, social influences, environmental conditions, and reinforcement. It can reveal barriers affecting prevention, adherence, or self-management. This information gives professionals a basis for selecting behavioral interventions instead of relying on a single educational approach.
Clinical behavioral interventions may combine education, counseling, goal setting, monitoring, and supportive environments. These components provide several routes for targeting modifiable factors that influence a patient's behavior. Using more than one route can help align support with the barriers identified during clinical assessment and with the patient's care needs.
They are useful when behavior affects prevention, treatment adherence, or self-management, and when professionals need to improve patient engagement. The approach can also inform patient-centered care by linking identified barriers with targeted support. Rather than treating every patient's challenge identically, clinicians can use assessment findings to select education, counseling, goal setting, monitoring, or environmental support.