An automated behavioral box to assess forelimb function in rats

An automated behavioral box to assess forelimb function in rats

Chelsea C. Wong and colleagues at the University of California – San Francisco have developed and shared a design for an open-source behavioral chamber for the measurement of forelimb function in rats. Forelimb function (reaching, grasping, retrieving, etc) is a...
Ratcave

Ratcave

Nicholas A. Del Grosso and Anton Sirota at the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience recently published their new project called Ratcave, a Python 3D graphics library that allows researchers to create and 3D stimuli in their experiments: Neuroscience...
DeepBehavior

DeepBehavior

Ahmet Arac from Peyman Golshani’s lab at UCLA recently developed DeepBehavior, a deep-learning toolbox with post processing methods for video analysis of behavior: Recently, there has been a major push for more fine-grained and detailed behavioral analysis in the...
CAVE

CAVE

In a recent article, Jennifer Tegtmeier and colleagues have shared CAVE: an open-source tool in MATLAB for combined analysis of head-mounted calcium imaging and behavior. Calcium imaging is spreading through the neuroscience field like melted butter on hot toast. Like...
Mousecam

Mousecam

Arne Meyer and colleagues recently shared their design and implementation of a head-mounted camera system for capturing detailed behavior in freely moving mice. Video monitoring of animals can give great insight to behaviors. Most video monitoring systems to collect...