neurotic

Jeffrey P. Gill and colleagues have developed and shared a new toolbox for synchronizing video and neural signals, cleverly named neurotic!

Collecting neural data and behavioral data are fundamental to behavioral neuroscience, and the ability to synchronize these data streams are just as important as collecting the information in the first place. To make this process a little simpler, Gill et al. developed an open-source option called neurotic, a NEUROscience Tool for Interactive Characterization. This tool is programmed in Python and includes a simple GUI, which makes it accessible for users with little coding experience. Users can read in a variety of file formats for neural data and video, which they can then process, filter, analyze, annotate and plot. To show the effectiveness across species and signal types, the authors tested the software with aplysia feeding behavior and human beam walking. Given its open-source nature and strong integration of other popular open-source packages, this software will continue to develop and improve as the community uses it.

This research tool was created by your colleagues. Please acknowledge the Principal Investigator, cite the article in which the tool was described, and include an RRID in the Materials and Methods of your future publications.  Project portal RRID:SCR_021403; Software RRID:SCR_021406