The following behavioral tests can be conducted at the behavioral unit with all the necessary equipment for data acquisition and analyses.
- Movement analysis with the rotarod
- Anxiety tests (open-field test, light-dark test, elevated plus maze)
- Memory (mostly hippocampal-dependent tasks)
- Novel object recognition,
- Object-to-place recognition
- Left-right discrimination
- Contextual fear conditioning
- Water maze
- Memory (amygdala-dependent tasks)
- Auditory fear conditioning
- Conditioned taste aversion
- Memory (prefrontal cortex-dependent)
- Spontaneous alternation in the Y-maze
- Temporal order object recognition
- Delayed alternation in the T-maze
- Forced delayed non-match-to sample (DNMS) task
- Cognitive flexibility
- Fear memory extinction
- Reversal learning
- Attention set-shifting
- Social function
- 3-chamber sociability task
- Homecage social interaction test
- Assess sensory processing - Automated (cortical-dependent tasks)
- Visual Object recognition
- Multisensory (visual-olfactory-auditory) integration
- Olfactory discrimination
- Visual discrimination
- Auditory discrimination
- Virtual & Real Navigation