An automated behavioral box to assess forelimb function in rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 246, Issue , 2015, Pages 30-37

  Wong, Chelsea C ^a,b   Ramanathan, Dhakshin S ^a,c   Gulati, Tanuj ^a,b   Won, Seok Joon ^a,b   Ganguly, Karunesh ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Motor learning; Reach

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED BEHAVIORAL BOX; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FIBER OPTICS; FORELIMB; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84925436734     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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