Sex differences in behavioral despair: Relationships between behavioral despair and open field activity

Depression: a new animal model sensitive to antidepressant treatments

Roger D. Porsolt, Manuel Pichon, M Jalfre · Nature · 1977 · 4.4K citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychiatry +12

Behavioural despair in rats: A new model sensitive to antidepressant treatments

Roger D. Porsolt, Guy Anton, N. Blavet et al. · European Journal of Pharmacology · 1978 · 3.1K citations

Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology +13

“Behavioural despair” in rats and mice: Strain differences and the effects of imipramine

Roger D. Porsolt, Anne Bertin, M Jalfre · European Journal of Pharmacology · 1978 · 631 citations

Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, Pharmacology +12

Immobility induced by forced swimming in rats: Effects of agents which modify central catecholamine and serotonin activity

Roger D. Porsolt, Anne Bertin, N. Blavet et al. · European Journal of Pharmacology · 1979 · 577 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +14

Female rats are more vulnerable than males in an animal model of depression: the possible role of serotonin

G.A. Kennett, Francis Chaouloff, Margaret Marcou et al. · Brain Research · 1986 · 299 citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +15