Mafalda Valente and colleagues have developed Ratphones, a tool that can be used to deliver precise auditory stimuli to freely moving rats. Ratphones are a miniature set of headphones that allow experimenters high control over sound presentation in order to...
The Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary published their design for an integrative running wheel system in eNeuro, available on GitHub. Stephanie Borgland and colleagues designed an economical and versatile open source running wheel system, validated...
Aldric Negrier, a maker and builder in Portugal, designed an open source syringe pump system that can be 3D printed and assembled for ~$300 USD. The system contains five pumps which may hold 5mL, 10mL, or 20mL syringes. Each pump may be programmed to function...
Andre Spence and colleagues developed a closed-loop platform for studying locomotor behavior on treadmills. This tool is among several useful methods for studying locomotor behavior that is available from the Spence Lab at Temple University. The platform allowing for...
The distributed nature of the mammalian motor system makes it difficult to understand the neural mechanisms of movement. A behavioral paradigm designed by Tejapratap Bollu and his colleagues can be applied to measure these circuits. Bollu and his colleagues developed...
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