Anxious Crayfish Can Be Treated Like Humans (8 of 8) (VIDEO)

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This AAAS animation describes a primitive form of anxiety in crayfish, which is controlled by serotonin and treatable with anxiolytic drugs. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 13 June, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by P. Fossat at the Université de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France, and colleagues was titled, "Anxiety-like behavior in crayfish is controlled by serotonin."

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