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Describe and evaluate the three-chamber behavioral testing paradigm designed to measure social affiliation, social memory, and preference for social novelty in rodent models of neuropsychiatric disorders.

February 25, 2011Journal of Visualized Experiments

Assessment of Social Interaction Behaviors

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OKOksana Kaidanovich‐BeilinTakeda (Canada)TLTatiana V. LipinaUniversity of Toronto IVIgor VukobradovicLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

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Methodological review demonstrates standardized assessment of sociability and social novelty in mice, highlighting pathways to evaluate neuropsychiatric disease models.

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Describe and evaluate the three-chamber behavioral testing paradigm designed to measure social affiliation, social memory, and preference for social novelty in rodent models of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Utilizes a three-chamber apparatus allowing a subject mouse to move freely among compartments across two separate sessions.
Quantifies sociability by measuring indirect contact time with an unfamiliar conspecific compared to an empty chamber.
Evaluates social memory and novelty preference by comparing time spent with a novel conspecific versus a familiar conspecific.
Distinguishes baseline social affiliation and motivation from social recognition and memory across diverse inbred and mutant mouse lines.
Serves as an effective, standardized behavioral screen to characterize phenotype variations and evaluate interventions for social psychopathologies.

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Kaidanovich‐Beilin et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a756dc01078cf7de2b21a4e https://doi.org/10.3791/2473

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Methodological review demonstrates standardized assessment of sociability and social novelty in mice, highlighting pathways to evaluate neuropsychiatric disease models.

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