Traditional auditory stimuli used in behavioral tasks a pure tones over a range frequencies. These stimuli have proven reliable for eliciting conditioned behavioral responses in rewarding contexts and fearful contexts. Many commercially available operant chambers have...
Greg Silasi from the University of Ottowa has kindly shared the following about HASRA, a system for individualized training of group-housed mice in a single pellet reaching task. ‘We developed an automated apparatus and single pellet reach training paradigm for...
Katherine Nautiyal from Dartmouth College has kindly shared the following about DIY-NAMIC, a high-throughput method to measure complex phenotypes in the homecage. ‘Operant behavioral paradigms provide rich data sets which are very useful for assessing manipulations in...
Researchers at the University of Guelph have created a low-cost automated apparatus for measuring catalepsy that increases measurement accuracy and reduces observer bias. Catalepsy is a measure of muscular rigidity that can result from several factors including...
This week we want to shed some light on a project from Robel Dagnew and colleagues from UCLA called CerebraLux, a wireless system for optogenetic stimulation. Optogenetic methods have been a crucial tool for understanding the role that certain neural cell populations...
