This protocol allows researchers to examine the effects of chronic stress on effortful responding in both male and female mice. An advantage of this technique is that both male and female mice can simultaneously undergo a validated chronic social
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The Y-maze barrier task is a behavior test that examines motivation to expend effort for reward. Here, we discuss testing multiple well-validated chronic stressors including chronic corticosterone and social defeat stress with this behavior, as well as the novel chronic non-discriminatory social defeat stress (CNSDS), which is effective in females.