Neurobiology and Behavior

Motor abilities

• Grip test
• Rotarod test
• Traction reflex test
• Beam walking
• One-meter swim test
• Electromyography

Anxiety-related behavior

• Open-field test
• Light/dark test
• Elevated plus maze
• Startle reactivity

Depression-like behavior

• Tail suspension test
• Forced swim test
• Sucrose preference test

Learning and memory

• Y-maze spontaneous alternation
• Contextual and cued fear conditioning
• Object recognition
• Morris water maze
• Active/passive avoidance
• Scopolamine-induced amnesia

Vision

• Slit lamp imaging
• Fundus imaging (TEFI)
• Angiography
• Electroretinogram
• Optomotor reflex

Audition

• Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)
• Distortion Product OtoAcoustic Emissions (DPOAE)

Pain sensitivity

• Tail flick test
• Hot plate test
• Formalin pain
• Shock threshold

Sensorimotor gating / Schizophrenia

• Acoustic startle and pre-pulse inhibition
• Cross-modal PPI
• Amphetamine-stimulated locomotor activity

General health & basic sensory functions

• Modified SHIRPA

Circadian activity and biological rhythm

• Spontaneous activity and food/water intake

Seizure susceptibility

• Pentylene-tetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizures