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2 articles

Reviews4 January 2022

A compact guide to the systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature in neuroscience

Juliana Bolzan & Cilene Lino de Oliveira

Critical appraisals of the literature may help to increase reproducibility in neuroscience. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are tools for neuroscientists to critically evaluate a large amount of knowledge in the research field. These methods involve individually simple decisions, which may…

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Reviews13 August 2020

Have we reproduced Rat Park? Conceptual but not direct replication of the protective effects of social and environmental enrichment in addiction

Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo

The Rat Park studies are classic experiments in addiction neuroscience, yet they have not been successfully replicated directly and several serious methodological criticisms have been raised. However, the conceptual reproducibility of the Rat Park studies is supported by both contemporaneous and…

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