| Behavioral Functions, Neuropsychiatric Disorders |
Set-ups and equipment offered |
| Learning, Memory and Cognition |
Emotional memory
• Fear conditioning (contextual or cue-associated modalities)
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Spatial memory
• Barnes maze
• Morris water maze
• Radial arm maze
• Spontaneous alteration (T maze) - "working memory"
• Novel object recognition
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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)
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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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| Social Behavior |
Interactive behavior
• Social interaction test
• Three-chamber test
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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
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| Chronobiology |
Circadian rhythm
• Phase controlled wheel running
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| Metabolism |
Indirect calorimetry
• Energy expenditure (respirometry)
• Food intake
• Locomotor activity
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