Behavioral assays

We offer a wide variety of behavioral assays outlined below: 

  • Locomotor activity: Open Field and Chronic home-cage monitoring.
  • Anxiety-like behavior: Elevated-Zero Maze, Open field, Novelty-Induced Hypophagia, Novelty-Suppressed Feeding, and Light/Dark Box. 
  • Learning & Memory: Contextual and Cued Fear conditioning, Extinction Learning, Morris Water Maze, Novel Object Location, Novel Object Recognition, Y-Maze, Barnes Maze, and Radial Maze. 
  • Depressive-like behavior: Forced Swim, Learned Helplessness, Social Defeat, Restrain Stress, Tail Suspension, Sucrose Preference. 
  • Homecage Behaviors: Grooming, Feeding, Drinking, Locomotion, Climbing, and Rearing. 
  • Social Behavior: Social Novelty, Social Interaction, Resident Intruder, Social Place Preference. 
  • Olfactory Function: Olfactory Cross-habituation and Olfactory Generalization. 
  • Sensory Function: Hotplate, Shock Threshold, Automated Von Fray Filaments for mechanical testing, thermal plantar testing or Hargreaves test. 
  • Motor Function: Accelerating Rotarod, wire-hang test, Grip Strength, and Gait Analysis. 

The RBPC also offers the capability to adapt our equipment to the research needs of our users.