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Chapters
- 00:04Introduction
- 00:50Chronic Corticosterone (CORT)
- 01:52Y-Maze Apparatus Habituation
- 02:30Y-Maze Forced-Choice Training
- 03:13Y-Maze Free Choice Training
- 03:51Y-Maze Barrier Testing
- 04:51Chronic Non-Discriminatory Social Defeat Stress (CNSDS)
- 06:51Results: Representative Chronic Stress-Induced Effort-Related Choice Behavior Analyses
- 08:55Conclusion
The Y-maze barrier task is a behavior test that examines motivation to expend effort for reward. Here, we discuss testing multiple well-validated chronic stressors including chronic corticosterone and social defeat stress with this behavior, as well as the novel chronic non-discriminatory social defeat stress (CNSDS), which is effective in females.
