depression - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Wistar-Kyoto rats were originally designed for studies related to hypertension, but are now often used as an animal analogue of this condition. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this condition of persistent low mood, which often includes anhedonia (“an-hee-DOE-nee-uh”).

ANSWER: depression [or major depressive disorder; or MDD; accept equivalents like being depressed; prompt on melancholy or melancholia by asking “what is the modern equivalent?”]

[10h] One indication that Wistar-Kyoto rats are typically depressed is that they record fewer activities in this test. In this test, often used to examine antidepressants, rats are placed in a container from which they cannot escape.

ANSWER: forced swim test [or forced swimming test; or Porsolt forced swimming test; or behavioral despair test]

[10m] Wistar-Kyoto rats more easily enter this condition, which Martin Seligman linked with depression. Seligman demonstrated this behavior by finding that dogs that could not escape initial shocks did not escape from later shocks.

ANSWER: learned helplessness [or LH]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	20.00	100%	89%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Brandeis	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	10	0	10	20
MIT B	Brown	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Yale	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	CWRU	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Harvard	RIT	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Mount Sinai	JHU A	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
Swarthmore	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Oklahoma	10	0	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Texas A	10	0	0	10
UChicago C	UChicago B	10	0	10	20
#OpenToBuzz	Carleton A	10	0	10	20
Guelph perfomative male competition	Toronto G	10	0	10	20
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	McGill B	10	0	10	20
McGill Fartlets	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Queen's is monitoring the situation	10	0	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	10	0	10	20
Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	Ottawa 67s	10	0	0	10
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Free Win	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	In Search of Lost Clues	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	10	0	10	20
Bristold	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	10	10	10	30
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	Chimp Brisket	10	0	10	20
Hail to the Sheaf	Coughing Baby	10	0	10	20
Washed Scrubs	Knorr Stock Clue	10	0	10	20
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	To buzz is to be perceived	10	0	10	20
Galactic Ombudsmen	The Bit and the Penndulum	10	0	0	10
question mark	Of Mice and Penn	10	0	10	20
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	10	0	10	20
VT A	UNC A	10	0	10	20
Wise Duke	UNC B	10	0	10	20
Truman State	WashU Kiki	10	0	10	20
WashU Bouba	VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	10	0	10	20
UChicago A	Illinois	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	New Young Whigs of America	10	0	10	20
rusty shackleford	abg academy	10	0	10	20
JHU B	John Jay	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20