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Maze Basics: T Maze
June 4, 2018
Welcome to Maze Engineers: Maze Basics. Today we’ll talk about the T maze. A Trial Run on the T Maze
Do-It-Yourself: How to Build a Rat Maze
May 29, 2018
Using Mazes to Understand Behavior Mazes have been used for decades as a way to study rodent behavior, particularly learning and memory, navigation, and…
If I am performing a battery of behavioral tests, in what order should I perform them?
May 24, 2018
We have all been in a place whereby the time we were performing the third test of our protocol’s battery of behavioral tests, we realized that our experimental…
Astrocytes Function: Role of astrocytes in animal behavior
May 21, 2018
What are astrocytes? Astrocytes are a type of glial cells found in the brain and spinal cord. They can be easily distinguishable from other cells because they…
Does Diet Soda Affect Behavior?
May 18, 2018
It’s a hot summer’s day and you decide to refresh yourself by sipping on a cold diet soda. You think to yourself, “It’s okay to drink this, it’s just diet soda…
The Effects of Caffeine on Mice Behavior
May 15, 2018
The nervous system has a fundamental role in the control of behavior. In order to modify behavior, stimulant drugs are often used to improve mental processing.…
Amygdala Function and Experimental Manipulation
May 2, 2018
What is the Amygdala? The limbic system is a set of midline structures from the telencephalon, diencephalon and mesencephalon in the temporal lobe that…
Egg Consumption and Behavior
April 23, 2018
What came first, the chicken or the egg, or the bioactive components within the egg which are potent enough to affect behavior? An egg may seem simple, one…
Social Interaction Tests in Mouse Models
April 18, 2018
Human beings, and many other species exhibit a rich panoply of social behaviors. Social interactions common to a huge variety of different species include…
Vitamin E Affects Anxiety and Other Behaviors
March 31, 2018
What’s So Special About Vitamin E? Do you know what makes vitamin E different from all of the rest of the vitamins? The form of vitamin E that is most crucial…
