| Behavioral Functions, Neuropsychiatric Disorders |
Set-ups and equipment offered |
| Memory and Cognition |
Emotional memory
• Fear Conditioning (contextual or cue-associated modalities)
• Conditioned Avoidance (active/passive)
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Spatial memory
• Morris Water Maze
• Radial Arm Maze
• Spontaneous Alteration (T maze) - "working memory"
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Motor activity
(baseline levels, or drug-abused effects)
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Locomotor activity
• Home cage (photobeam breaks)
• Open-field arena (photobeam breaks)
Motor coordination and balance
• Rotarod Test
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| Pain |
Reactivity to painful stimulation
• Tailflick Test (spinal reflex)
• Hot Plate Test (supraspinal pain reflex)
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| Anxiety |
Anxiety-like behavior
• Elevated Plus Maze (automated)
• Open-field Activity (photobeam breaks)
• Light/Dark Box (automated)
• Startle Response (acoustic stimulus)
• Punished Drinking (Vogel Test) - near future
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| Depression / Mood Disorders |
Depressive-like behavior
• Porsolt Forced Swim Test
• Tail Suspension Test
• Sucrose/saccharin preference
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| Schizophrenia |
Prepulse inhibition
• acoustic startle response
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| Drug Addiction |
Conditioned reward
• conditioned place preference
Alcohol self-administration
• preference (bottle-choice)
• drinking in the dark
Locomotor activity
• psychostimulant effects vs. depressant effects
• tolerance and sensitization of psychomotor activity
NEAR FUTURE:
Operant self-administration panels
• drug and alcohol self-administration (oral, intravenous)
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