Coping with the Forced Swim Stressor: Towards Understanding an Adaptive Mechanism

Figure 1

The figure shows the interpretation of the outcomes of the FST as a function of year of publication. The slopes that are plotted indicate that over the years more studies choose to label the outcomes from the FST as “depression-like behaviour” (the red line) and fewer as “antidepressant” properties of drugs (the blue line) or behavior such as “learned immobility” (the green line). For more information on these data we refer to Molendijk and de Kloet [8].