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...
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...
Dr. David Muñoz Tord and colleagues at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences developed a 3D-printed mouthpiece that is modeled after a children’s pacifier. This mouthpiece is used, in conjunction with a fMRI-compatible customer, to deliver up to eight liquids during...
Vijay Namboodiri has contributed this summary of his lab’s open-source system for behavioral control based on the Arduino Mega microcontroller and a MATLAB-based graphical interface and analysis code. Associative learning and memory tasks are a staple of many...
Rodent drinking behavior is used in numerous task designs, most commonly two-bottle choice tasks, to provide insight into the research question of interest. Typically, measuring the intake of fluids is done by weighing bottles over days, and while several tools have...
