Review Article
Diet-Regulated Anxiety
Table 1
Common tests of anxiety.
| Test | Indicator of anxiety | Additional uses/outcomes |
| Mazes (T maze, Y maze, elevated plus maze, O maze) | Decreased time in open (unwalled) sections | Activity, speed, and cognition | Light dark box | Decreased time in light box | Activity and speed | Open field | Less time in centre regions | Activity and speed | Sucrose preference | Decreased consumption of sucrose | Anhedonia | Locomotor activity | Decreased activity | Activity, speed, and rearing behaviours | Marble burying | Increased compulsive burying behaviour | Compulsion, impulsivity, and neophobia | Novel object | Decreased exploration of unfamiliar object | Activity, speed, memory, impulsivity, and neophobia |
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