Three weeks after the last AAS/vehicle injection,
experimental and control animals were tested for anxiety on
the elevated plus maze, the dark/light, and the seed finding
tests and then examined for differences in serotonin afferent
innervation to selected anxiety-related brain areas. To
confirm the absence of an aggressive phenotype, on the
twentieth day of AAS withdrawal animals were tested for
offensive aggression using the resident-intruder test. The
study showed that AAS intake elicits aggression in youngsters
and AAS discontinuation elicits anxiety