Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...

The tail suspension test (TST), a sibling of the FST, was developed in 1985 and requires that a mouse be suspended by its tail in a small chamber so that it can neither escape nor hold on to a nearby ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...

Editor's note: This is a content warning. The following video and images contain sensitive content that some readers may find offensive or disturbing. An animal rights group is suing the University of ...