Latest
Forced Swim Test in Mice: Studying Anxiety Across Genders
September 23, 2015
In today’s installment of the Maze Engineers blog, we’ll be exploring more sex differences in maze studies. This time, we’ll be looking at the Forced Swim Test…
Traumatic Brain Injury: What Maze Studies can Teach Us about It
July 7, 2015
Picture this: a good friend of yours just got out of a nasty car accident and you go to visit him in the hospital. The first thing you notice is that his…
Exploring the Y-Maze: A Test of Spatial Memory
June 19, 2015
Introduction People typically associate mazes with long, winding labyrinths that offer no hope of navigating, let alone escaping. That sounds scary and…
Using Zero Mazes to Scare Away Anxiety
June 3, 2015
Zero Maze Test Since we’re talking about running tests on mice the method of choice used in these studies is, you guessed it, mazes. The study we’ll be…
Novel Object Recognition Test: Testing Exploration and Memory
December 18, 2014
Welcome back to the Maze Engineers blog! Today we’re going to talk about how basic object recognition is tested in mice/rats. Object recognition is a complex…
Hippocampus vs navigation
December 2, 2014
Barnes Maze Test
July 22, 2014
Phew, you can stop holding your breath. The Barnes Maze is here! This maze is used to test similar aspects of learning and memory as the Morris water maze, but…
Morris Water Maze Test
July 7, 2014
I want to welcome everyone back to the MazeEngineer Blog. This week I’m going to introduce the Morris Water Maze. Like the Y-maze, this maze is often used to…
Spontaneous alternation for Y Mazes and T Mazes
June 9, 2014
Welcome back to the MazeEngineer Blog. Last week we began our trip down memory lane by discussing how reference memory and working menory can be assessed with…
The 8 Arm Radial Maze and Reference Memory
May 22, 2014
Boris Podolsky: James how's the rat business? James Moreland: Well, actually it's mostly students I'm experimenting on now. Kurt Godel: My God, the mazes must…
