Beam Walking Apparatus Sweiss et al. (2016)
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Sweiss et al. (2016)
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1830
- Integration of motor co-ordination tasks and anxiety-like behavior is important to asses brain injury in rodents that impact performance on both the tasks
- Sweiss et al. (2016) propose modified walking beam to achieve the integration of these two tasks
- modified beam-walking (MBW) apparatus has an added platform to support a darkened safe box
- Safe box made with semicircular opening of approximately 15 cm diameter for rodent to enter easily
- Safe-box is painted black to mimic enclosed arms of Elevated plus maze
- rat is placed on the end of the beam opposite the safe box to measure motor latency to cross the beam – motor task performance
- After beam crossing the rat is left in the safe box for 5 min – Anxiety testing
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What it measures
Beam Walking Test
- Traversal Time
- Foot Slips
- Falls
- Traversal Speed
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