Automated behavioral analysis of limbs' activity in the forced swim test

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-86

  Gersner, Roman ^a   Gordon Kiwkowitz, Michal ^a   Zangen, Abraham ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Animal model; Antidepressant; Computer vision and automatic tools; Depression; Gaussian distribution; Swim test

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMOBILIZATION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EXTREMITIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349163170     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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