Nicholas Michelson and colleagues, in the lab of Timothy Murphy at the University of British Columbia, developed Meso-Py. It is a Raspberry-Pi based platform for dual-brain calcium imaging in mice during head-fixed social interactions. Designed to explore the neural...
FlexRig is an open-source platform for running experiments to test decision making and cognitive flexibility in mice. It was developed by Dr Tim Spellman and his lab at the UConn School of Medicine. The platform allows for using olfactory, somatosensory, and/or...
Adam Lester and colleagues from the NC4 lab, led by Dr. Manu Madhav at the University of British Columbia, have developed NC4gate, a fully customizable gate system that can be used in behavioral experiments involving rodent mazes (T-maze, Y-maze, radial arm, etc.)....
Spatial cognition paradigms in animal models tend to focus on allocentric means of navigation where animals rely on environmental landmarks. There is a need for spatial cognition paradigms that also take egocentric navigation into account, where an animal’s own point...
Researchers at the Bernardo Houssay Institute of Physiology and Biophysics, led by Esteban Valverde, have developed an open-source holeboard for studying rodent behavior. Holeboards are a widely used tool in neuroscience for assessing exploration, anxiety, and spatial...
