Departments

Tests

• General health & basic sensory functions
  • Modified SHIRPA
• Circadian activity and biological rhythm
  • Spontaneous activity and food/water intake
• Sensori-motor abilities
  • Grip test
  • Rotarod test
  • Traction reflex test
  • Beam walking
  • One-meter swim test
  • Electromyography
  • MoRaG
  • Automated Gait Analysis
• Pain sensitivity
  • Tail flick test
  • Hot plate test
  • Formalin pain
  • Shock threshold
• Anxiety-related and social behavior
  • Open-field test
  • Light/dark test
  • Elevated plus maze
  • Social Recognition ("NEW")
• Depression-like behavior
  • Tail suspension test
  • Forced swim test
  • Sucrose preference test
• Sensorimotor gating / Schizophrenia
  • Acoustic startle and pre-pulse inhibition
  • Cross-modal PPI
  • Amphetamine-stimulated locomotor activity
• Learning and memory
  • Y-maze spontaneous alternation
  • Contextual and cued fear conditioning
  • Object recognition
  • Morris water maze
  • Active/passive avoidance
  • Scopolamine-induced amnesia
  • TouchScreen
• Epilepsy / Seizure susceptibility
  • Pentylene-tetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizures