ReachOut

ReachOut

The reach-to-grasp task is commonly used to study fine motor behavior in mice because of the translatability of the movement’s neurocircuitry to humans and non-human primates. Daniil Berezhnoi and colleagues have developed ReachOut, a project that includes all of the...
Pybehave

Pybehave

Evan Destin-van Rijn and colleagues in Alik Widge’s Translational NeuroEngineering Lab at the University of Minnesota recently shared their preprint on their new Python-based framework, Pybehave with us. Pybehave is a Python-based framework for designing and...
FARESHARE

FARESHARE

Jude Frie and Jibran Khokhar of the Khokhar Lab at University of Western Ontario published their open-source tool, FARESHARE, in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in February 2024. FARESHARE (Fluid Acquisition Recording in Socially Housed Animal...
Lickometer Box

Lickometer Box

While the current understanding of drinking behavior has rapidly evolved over time and research on the subject has become more widespread, the devices we use to measure complexities of this behavior have failed to keep up. Dr. Mariana Cardoso Melo and colleagues from...
3D-Printed Syringe Rack

3D-Printed Syringe Rack

Garrett Denney, an undergraduate neuroscience major at American University, recently completed his first 3D printing project, which he shared on GitHub. Inspired by challenges in his research lab, where syringes are used for drug administration to animals, Garrett...