Adapting to repeated stress is essential for maintaining mental health. In a new paper published by the Bohacek lab, researchers have mapped, for the first time, the dynamic molecular changes that occur during stress habituation. The work uncovers molecular mechanisms associated with stress habituation: Waag et al, Nature Communications.
Johannes Bohacek, in an article for ETH animal welfare, discusses the importance of animal models in understanding stress-related diseases and shares insights into his team's research with laboratory mice.
Johannes Bohacek was nominated as one of the finalists for this year’s ALEA awards. We congratulate all the nominees and the winners, the co-lead duo Olga Schubert and Martin Ackermann!
Our recent work published in Nature Methods is featured in an article on the ETH Zurich News platform: “Behavioural analysis in mice: more precise results despite fewer animals”.
Our paper “Analysis of behavioral flow resolves latent phenotypes” has been published in Nature Methods. It introduces BehaviorFlow, a pipeline for analyzing rodent behavior from video recordings. BehaviorFlow yields more power for group comparisons, it can reveal hidden treatment effects, and it allows for the comparison of complex behavioral patterns across experiments.