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...
MoSeq

MoSeq

The use of video analysis techniques have transformed our understanding of animal behavior. Recently, members of the Datta Lab have developed tools to parse out mouse behavior into sub-second motifs. First, Sherry Lin and colleagues introduced Depth MoSeq, an...
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...
TMaze for Pavlovian Conditioning

TMaze for Pavlovian Conditioning

This 3D-printed T-Maze project is a pretty basic but formidable design for basic behavioral experiments such as learning, memory, or other Pavlovian tests. The apparatus presented here consists of a three-part print (the Maze and two sliding doors) and it requires no...
Live Mouse Tracker Toolkit

Live Mouse Tracker Toolkit

Nicolas Torquet, one of the developers of LiveMouseTracker (LMT), has shared the following about the new addition to the video tracking system package: LMT-toolkit, developed for facilitation of LMT-based data analysis: “LMT-toolkit is an open source web...