Schrodinger's mouse: human observation erases a drug-induced behavioral phenotype
Animal studies primarily rely on human monitoring for health and behavioral outcomes. The presence of a human, however, can induce stress and potentially alter experimental results. We sought to answer whether human observation alone is enough to change experimental outcomes and obscure the effect of interest. Our automated home-cage behavioral phenotyping system provided the ideal platform to…
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