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Passive avoidance in epilepsy and seizures research

From 2021 to 2025, 59 animal research papers on epilepsy and seizures mentioned passive avoidance in their title or abstract.

That is about the same as the 58 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on epilepsy and seizures that mention any of the 90 tests we count rose 30%. The 2021 to 2025 count may run low because of a dip in PubMed's indexing, explained under the year chart.

59 papers on epilepsy and seizures from 2021 to 2025 mentioned passive avoidance
10% of the papers on epilepsy and seizures that mention any test mention passive avoidance
5% of the papers that mention passive avoidance are on epilepsy and seizures
About the same number of papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on epilepsy and seizures that mention passive avoidance, by year, 2001 to 2026

The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.

  • Papers in a full year
  • 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
Papers by year
YearPapers
20019
20025
20038
20045
200512
200610
20075
20084
20095
201010
201114
201213
20138
201412
201511
201612
201713
20186
201910
202013
202115
202214
20239
202411
202510
2026 (part year)9

Papers on epilepsy and seizures that mention passive avoidance fell from 15 in 2021 to 9 in 2023, then rose to 10 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. Where PubMed has indexed a paper, we take its disease models from that indexing. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted here. Papers that PubMed indexed under the subject heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025.

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 59 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
31 papers 53%
Mouse
24 papers 41%
Zebrafish
4 papers 7%

Tests mentioned alongside passive avoidance

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 59 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 32 (54%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

13 papers 22%
9 papers 15%
7 papers 12%
6 papers 10%
4 papers 7%
2 papers 3%
1 paper 2%
1 paper 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions passive avoidance in its title or abstract, and studies epilepsy and seizures.

We tell whether a paper studies epilepsy and seizures from its MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model. A paper that mentions the test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.

The page on epilepsy and seizures research names the subject headings we count as epilepsy and seizures. Download the test list for the search terms we used for passive avoidance, or the paper list for the PubMed ID of every paper behind these counts. Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use.

More tests and disease models

Every pairing of a disease model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

The page on passive avoidance counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on epilepsy and seizures research ranks the tests by their papers on epilepsy and seizures.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Passive avoidance in epilepsy and seizures research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/epilepsy/passive-avoidance

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_epilepsy_passive_avoidance_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Passive avoidance in epilepsy and seizures research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/epilepsy/passive-avoidance},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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