New and “cool” methods in behavioral neuroscience

• Autorzy: Boguszewski P.M. , Puscian A. , Knapska E.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Behavioral tests in laboratory rodents play an essential role in basic and applied biomedical research. Development of new animal models for neurological and psychiatric disorders, as well as preclinical phase of drug research require a „proof-of-concept” testing on a system level. Since most of the behavioral procedures are not rigorously standardized, it is difficult to obtain replicable results between laboratories. One of the approaches to solve this problem is designing more ethologically-relevant behavioral tasks, in which behavioral expression is more voluntary and manifold behavioral measures are collected over long periods. Collecting large amounts of data requires automatic control of all stages of a study – experimental cage/system manipulation, data gathering and analysis. Such automated systems offer important advantages. They increase level of standardization that results in more coherent data, save time and manpower, as well as reduce animal numbers required. Automated monitoring, although new and often sophisticated, could be cheap as well. The inspiration comes from growing popularity of amateur robotics, accessibility of 3D printing and progress in electronics. The aim of the lecture is to present new tests and solutions we are developing in Nencki Institute, including RFID tags for social experiments, automatic vocalization classification, video image animals detection and recognition software and even Mindstorm Lego robots.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 74
• Numer: 3
• Opis fizyczny: p.348

Twórcy

autor

Boguszewski P.M.

• Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

autor

Puscian A.

• Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

autor

Knapska E.

• Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland