Monday, November 21, 2011

Every Mouse Is Different: How Mouse 'Personality' Sheds Light On Human Depression

ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2011) — Just as in humans, there are also the tough types or those with a more delicate personality among mice, as Eneritz Gómez, a psychologist at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), has been able to confirm. Some adopt an active strategy when faced with stress situations and somehow try to tackle the problem, whereas others display a passive attitude. Those in the second group are more vulnerable: some of the physiological characteristics resemble those attributed to human depression.

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