The facility can be used to design and perform several electrophysiological protocols from a variety of preparations

a) short-term and long-term plasticity experiments from brain slices of various cortical areas, the hippocampus or amygdala

b) current-clamp recordings to study neuronal excitability, spontaneous or evoked synaptic responses from brain slices with pharmacological applications if necessary.

c) recordings can also be performed from YFP or GFP- labeled cells, either from brain slices or neuronal cultures

d) voltage-clamp recordings to study spontaneous excitatory and/or inhibitory activity from PC12 and/or primary neuronal cultures cells with pharmacological applications if necessary

Other specialized protocols could also be performed upon request, given the suitability of existing equipment.