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1Charité Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Department for Psychosomatic Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin,Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, 2Department of Internal Medicine,Helios Clinic, 3Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy,University Hospital Tübingen, 4Department of Quantitative Health Sciences,University of Massachusetts Medical School
Chapters
- 00:04Introduction
- 01:11Sucrose Preference Test
- 03:15Novelty-induced Hypophagia Test
- 04:47Results: Sucrose Preference and Novelty-induced Hypophagia Measurements
- 06:37Conclusion
Presented here is a protocol to study depression-like and anhedonic behavior in rats. It combines two well-established behavioral methods, the sucrose preference and novelty-induced hypophagia tests, with an automated food and liquid intake monitoring system, to indirectly investigate rodent behavior using surrogate parameters.
