Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Author "Scheepers, Isabella M."
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Natural compulsive‐like behaviour in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii) is associated with altered gut microbiota composition
Scheepers, Isabella M.; Harvey, Brian H.; Santana, Leonard; Van der Sluis, Rencia; Wolmarans, De Wet (Wiley, 2020)Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric illness that significantly impacts affected patients and available treatments yield suboptimal therapeutic response. Recently, the role of the gut–brain axis (GBA) in ... -
Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii as a naturalistic mammalian model of obsessive-compulsive disorder: current status and future challenges
Wolmarans, De Wet; Scheepers, Isabella M.; Harvey, Brian H.; Stein, Dan J. (Springer, 2018)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a prevalent and debilitating condition, characterized by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behavior. Animal models of OCD arguably have the potential to contribute to our understanding ...