Spontaneous alternation behavior: an animal model for obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior October 1, 1991 E Yadin, E Friedman, Wagner H. Bridger 137 citations
This study entailed the adoption of a well-established behavioral paradigm, spontaneous alternation, as a possible animal model for some of the symptoms observed in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in humans. Food-deprived rats were run in a T-maze in which both a black and a white goal box were equally baited with a small amount of chocolate milk. Each rat was given 7 trials every other day...