Behavioral Unit
Emmanouil Froudarakis and Kyriaki Sidiropoulou
Rooms: Animal house, experimental building
The following tests for mice are available at the behavioral unit with all the necessary equipment for data acquisition and analyses.
Tests to Assess movement
- Rotarod
- Ladder test
Tests to assess memory
- Object recognition tasks (novel object, object-to-place, temporal order object recognition, target detection in delayed match-to-sample)
- Water maze
Tests to assess anxiety
- Open-field test
- Elevated plus maze
- Light-dark test
Tests to assess social behavior
- Sociability
- Social memory
Test to assess sensory processing
- Visual Object recognition (2AFC)
- Multisensory (visual-olfactory) integration
- Olfactory discrimination (2AFC)