Elevated Plus Maze: Decoding Rodent Anxiety and Fear
Elevated Plus Maze The Core Definition of the Elevated Plus Maze The Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) is a highly specialized and widely validated animal model utilized primarily in behavioral neuroscience and psychopharmacology for the assessment of anxiety-like behavior in rodents, typically mice and rats. Fundamentally, the EPM exploits the natural conflict between a rodent’s innate […]