A novel open field activity detector to determine spatial and temporal movement of laboratory animals after injury and disease

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 330-336

  Koob, Andrew O ^a   Cirillo, John ^b   Babbs, Charles F ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brain injury; Exploratory behavior; Head injury; Laboratory animal; Neurodegeneration; Neurological disease; Open field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33748319420     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.04.020     Document Type: Article

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