Behavioral Core Equipment
Please be aware of the Guidelines for Subject Prep Work 
in the Behavioral Core. View the Equipment List and Room Schematic .
104:
- Horizontal pole (balance, agility)
- Rope climb (grip strength, agility)
- Rotorod (balance, coordination)
- DigiGait (gait)
- Corner test (rearing)
- Grip-strength meter
- Cyclinder test (rearing, activity)
- Foot-fault (coordination)
- Hot-plate (analgesia)
- Von Frey apparatus( allodynia)
- Hargraves apparatus (analgesia)
- 45-degree slings (righting reflex)
104A:
- Operant chambers (4)
104B:
- Startle/PPI chambers (3)
- Force-plate actimeter
104C/104E:
- Imaging station and anteroom for elevated plus maze,
light-dark anxiety, small (<1 m) open field, Y-maze, etc.
104D:
- Locomotor activity monitors (6)
103:
- Set-shifting box for olfactory and tactile
- discrimination and executive function (extradimensional shift)
- Running-wheel system
103A:
- Imaging station for large
(>1 m) open field - water maze, Barnes maze, 8-arm radial maze, etc.
Behavioral Core
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