The SocioBox: A novel paradigm to assess complex social recognition in male mice

Impairments in social skills are central to mental disease, and developing tools for their assessment in mouse models is essential. Here we present the SocioBox, a new behavioral paradigm to measure social recognition memory. Using this paradigm, we show that male wildtype mice of different strains...

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Main Authors: Dilja Krueger-Burg, Daniela Winkler, Mišo Mitkovski, Fernanda Daher, Anja Ronnenberg, Oliver Marcus Schlüter, Ekrem Dere, Hannelore Ehrenreich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00151/full