Rodent Behavioral Core
Emory University
Contact: Jason Schroeder, PhD
Phone: 404-309-8133
The Emory University Rodent Behavioral Core (RBC) is supported by the Emory University School of Medicine and is one of the Emory Integrated Core Facilities (EICF). We plan, execute, and analyze behavioral experiments examining activity, arousal, coordinated movement, learning and memory, anxiety, depression, seizure susceptibility, reward/reinforcement, and aggression in mice and rats.
If you use the RBC for your research, please acknowledge the RBC in your publications and include its RRID (RRID:SCR_012499).
Services offered by the Emory RBC:
Locomotor activity
1. Novelty-induced locomotor activity
2. Circadian rhythm
3. Voluntary wheel running
Arousal and attention
1. Behavioral sleep latency
2. Latent inhibition
Coordinated movement
1. Rotarod
2. Grid performance test
3. Beam traversal
4. Pole test
Learning and memory
1. Morris water maze
2. Radial arm maze
3. Y-maze
4. Social memory/discrimination test paradigm
5. Novel Object Recognition
6. Fear Conditioning
7. Various mouse touchscreen tasks (including 5-CSRTT)
Anxiety/Stress
1. Elevated plus maze
2. Light/dark box
3. Open field
4. Social defeat
Depression
1. Forced swim test
2. Tail suspension test
3. Novelty-suppressed feeding
4. Chronic unpredictable stress
5. Sucrose consumption/preference
6. Social defeat
Seizure susceptibility
1. Flurothyl seizure chamber
2. Kanic acid seizures
3. Pentylenetetrazole seizures
4. Bicuculline seizures
5. Audiogenic seizures
6. Increasing current electroshock seizures
7. Pilocarpine seizures
Reward/Reinforcement
1. Drug-induced locomotor activity
2. Drug-induced stereotypy
3. Sensitization
4. Conditioned place preference
5. Oral self-administration
6. Operant drug self-administration and reinstatement
7. Operant drug discrimination
8. Operant cocaine vs. food choice
Aggression
1. Resident-intruder aggression
2. Social defeat
Sensorimotor Gating
1. Acoustic startle
2. Prepulse inhibition
Pain Sensitivty
1. Von Frey test
2. Hot/Cold plate
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