Source Paper
Prenatal and early postnatal cannabis exposure interactions with adolescent chronic stress on anxiety-like, depression-like, and risk-taking behaviour.
Peterson CS, Ifionu I, Hamood F, Semizeh H, Ali A et al.
Psychopharmacology (Berl) • 2026
Wire Beam Bridge
behavioralmouse
Objective: Measures risk-taking behavior in mice
Materials & Equipment Checklist
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Protocol Steps
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Pre-test preparation
Begin testing mice from postnatal day 58 onwards as part of behavioral battery
Note: Part of battery including anxiety-like, stress coping, anhedonia-like, risk-taking, and social motivation tests
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“From PD58, mice were challenged with a battery of tests to measure anxiety-like (elevated plus maze, open field test), stress coping (forced swim test, tail suspension test), anhedonia-like (sucrose preference), risk-taking behaviour (wire beam bridge), and social motivation”
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Wire beam bridge test
Conduct wire beam bridge test to measure risk-taking behavior
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“risk-taking behaviour (wire beam bridge)”