Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Greek μῦς "mouse") or murophobia (a...

human studies. Rodents such as mice and rats are common animal models, but other species are used. Certain aspects of fear research still requires more...

They are known to invade homes for food and shelter. Mice are typically distinguished from rats by their size. Generally, when a muroid rodent is discovered...

many subgroups, each being of a specific type of zoophobia. Although zoophobia as a whole is quite rare, types of the fear are common. As mentioned before...

rats), Bandicota (bandicoot rats) and Dipodomys (kangaroo rats). Rats are typically distinguished from mice by their size. Usually the common name of...

and Ages were the only two survivors of a group of eight mice who had been part of the experiments at NIMH and made the rats' escape possible. Out of...

connections that determine how fear memories are stored and recalled. While studying rats' ability to recall fear memories, researchers found a newly identified...

world in an eternal winter and gathers together a seemingly invincible army of ice spear-wielding ghost rats. The mice of Deptford are at a loss as to...

staple in others. Taboos include fears of disease or religious prohibition, but in many places, the high number of rats has led to their incorporation into...

made simple, and that was not an ideal thing as the movie flopped although it was a TV movie. I like the idea of rats playing on someone’s fear, but it came...

caption, Lach and van Kleyn identify the performing animals as mice and rats. "They're intelligent and friendly. Why some people think rats are the perfect...

gene. Miller and Sweatt demonstrated that rats trained in a contextual fear conditioning paradigm had elevated levels of mRNA for DNMT3a and DNMT3b in the...

scotophobin induces fear of the dark in various mammals and fish. It was discovered in the brain of laboratory rats conditioned to have a fear of darkness. Moreover...

To the dismay of nearby residents, he restores the estate. After moving in, Delapore and his cat frequently hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind...

They are emitted by animals such as bats and rodents, and have been extensively studied in rats and mice. As opposed to sonic vocalizations, ultrasonic...

of neurotransmitter systems, which result in unusual behaviour. Mice experience similar behaviour to humans, including agitation and aggression, fear...

memory task. Rats in the control group were able to locate the platform and escape from the pool, while the performance of APV-treated rats was significantly...

older and hardened from war, falls in love with Luxa. They sneak out of Regalia and find that the Rats have driven the Mice out of the jungle and the Fount...

Microtinae) together with voles and muskrats, which form part of the superfamily Muroidea, which also includes rats, mice, hamsters and gerbils. In popular culture...

by Don Bluth. Adapted from the 1971 children's novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, in which she is originally named "Mrs. Frisby", she is voiced...

and how animals develop fear responses. The emotion, fear, has been hard-wired into almost every individual, due to its vital role in the survival of...

in rats. TMT has been called an "innate threat stimulus" because of how it "induces a number of fear and defensive behaviors" in naive mice and rats. Not...

Atlantic that he sees cats and rats peaceably eating from the same pile of garbage at the same time. Ecology of fear or "fear effect": is a negative impact...

them safer from predators. Mice are instinctively afraid of the smell of their natural predators, including cats and rats, even if they have been isolated...

recognition in rats. Both male and female rats that received a microinjection of oxytocin receptor antagonist had lower social recognition scores than rats that...

phenomenon, Lewis and colleagues (1969) taught rats a simple passive avoidance task, a fear-aggravated test used to evaluate learning and memory in rodent...

different species: mice display an instinctive fear response on the detection of Mups derived from predators such as cats and rats. Humans in good health...

knockout mice lacking the oxytocin receptor, reproductive behavior and parturition are normal. In male rats, oxytocin may induce erections. A burst of oxytocin...

(378 out of 479) of the chemicals tested for carcinogenicity in both rats and mice are synthetic (that is, do not occur naturally). 2) It has often been...

chambers on mice were deployed to study the effects of the disruption of the lateral septum and hippocampal inputs on fear memory formation and retrieval...