espa logo

Behavioral Unit

Behavioral Unit
Home > Facilities > Behavioral Unit

Behavioral Unit

Emmanouil Froudarakis and Kyriaki Sidiropoulou

Rooms: Animal house, experimental building

The following tests for mice are available at the behavioral unit with all the necessary equipment for data acquisition and analyses.

Tests to Assess movement

  • Rotarod
  • Ladder test

Tests to assess memory

  • Object recognition tasks (novel object, object-to-place, temporal order object recognition, target detection in delayed match-to-sample)
  • Water maze

Tests to assess anxiety

  • Open-field test
  • Elevated plus maze
  • Light-dark test

Tests to assess social behavior

  • Sociability
  • Social memory

Test to assess sensory processing

  • Visual Object recognition (2AFC)
  • Multisensory (visual-olfactory) integration
  • Olfactory discrimination (2AFC)