Equipment | Overview
| Name | Make/Model | Functionality | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behavior | ||||
| PalmReader | BlackBox Bio | Machine learning analysis of bottom-up imaging of rodent behavior | ||
| Sleep Deprivation/Fragmentation | Pinnacle Technology | Sleep Deprivation or fragmentation chambers | ||
| Inframot (infrared motion sensor) | tse-systems | Voluntary activity | Karp 04016 | |
| Activity wheels | tse-systems | Voluntary activity | Karp 04016 | |
| Optomotor | Cerebral Mechanics | Visual acuity (brain stem reflex) | Karp 04004 | |
| qOMR (Automated Optomotor) | Phenosys | Visual acuity (brain stem reflex) | Karp 04004 | |
| Acoustic Startle Reflex | Kinder Scientific | Hearing reflex | Karp 04006 | |
| Pre-pulse Inhibition | Kinder Scientific | Sensorimotor gating | Karp 04006 | |
| Rotarod | Columbus Instrument | Ataxia | Karp 04018 | |
| Treadmill | IITC Life Science | Forced activity | Karp 04018 | |
| DigiGait | Mouse Specifics | Gait analysis | Karp 04004 | |
| Grip Strength | tse-systems | Motor strengh | Karp 04009 | |
| ActiTrack locomotor activity | Harvard Apparatus | Voluntary activity | Karp 04016 | |
| Conditioned Fear | Ugo Basile | Anxiety/Cognition | Karp 04006 | |
| Light Dark Box | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Anxiety | Karp 04014 | |
| 3-Chamber Sociability Test | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Anxiety/Social Recognition | Karp 04014 | |
| Elevated Plus Maze | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Anxiety | Karp 04014 | |
| Conditioned Place Preference | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Emotional response to stimulus/condition | Karp 04014 | |
| Forced Swim | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Response to Stress | Karp 04016 | |
| Tail Suspension | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Response to Stress | Karp 04016 | |
| Open field/holeboards | Kinder Scientific | Anxiety/Activity | Karp 04016 | |
| Ultrasonic Vocalizations | Sonotrack, Metris | Communication | Karp 04016 | |
| Contextual Fear Conditioning | Stoelting (ANY-maze) | Anxiety/Cognition | Karp 04006 | |
| Novel Object Recognition | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Short term Working memory | Karp 04014 | |
| Y Maze | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Spatial short term working memory | Karp 04014 | |
| Water T Maze | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Cognitive flexibility | Karp 04014 | |
| Morris Water Maze | Ethovision XT (Noldus) | Spatial short term working memory | Karp 04008 | |
| Operant Touchscreens | Lafayette Instruments | Attention/working memory/flexibility | Karp 04015 | |
| Hot plate | Bioseb | Noxious heat sensitivity | Karp 04016 | |
| Thermal Gradient | Bioseb | Threshold heat preference | Karp 04016 | |
| Thermal place preference | Bioseb | Threshold heat preference | Karp 04016 | |
| Von Frey | Stoelting | Mechanical allodynia threshold | Karp 04009 | |
| Physiology | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wireless EEG | DSI (Harvard Bioscience) | Seizure susceptibility, epileptiform abnormalities, circadian disturbances, actigraphy, auditory evoked response potentials; continuous monitoring available for up to 4 months. | Karp 04013 | |
| Tethered EEG, multichannel | Pinnacle Technology | Sleep architecture analysis for up to 5 days. | Karp 04013 | |
| Subdermal wire electrode EEG | Cadwell | Karp 04013 | ||
| TMS with electromyography and/or accelerometry | In vivo cortical stimulation for translational experiments aimed to measure cortical excitability, cortical inhibition, cortical plasticity, motor evoked potentials. | CLS 14 | ||
| ECGenie | Mouse Specifics | Conscious, unrestrained ECG | Karp 04009 | |
| Whole Body Plethysmography | SCIREQ (EMKA Technologies) | Breathing measures, apneas | Karp 04009 | |
| Integrated Systems | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calcium imaging and Optogenetics | OASIS (Mightex) | Microendoscope fitted with fiber-coupled laser and LED light sources that is used in conjunction with implantable gradient-index (GRIN) lenses | Karp 4 Portable | |
| In vivo calcium imaging | Neurophotometrics | Multi-fiber photometry | Karp 4 Portable | |
| In vivo microdialysis | BASi Raturn and BAS HoneyComb | Microdialysis | Karp 04009 | |
| Open flow microperfusion | BASi Microperfusion | Microperfusion | Karp 04009 | |
| Surgery | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dissecting microscopes | Leica/Zeiss | Karp 04002/17 | ||
| Stereotaxic frames | Harvard Apparatus | Karp 04002/17 | ||