This suite is directed by Drs. Jennifer Whistler and Brian Wiltgen and currently supports research in 8 faculty labs. This suite provides space, equipment and expertise on behavioral assays that members of the CNS can use for a nominal annual access fee. This core facility contains 8 isolated rooms of behavioral space with available behavioral tasks including: operant conditioning, fear conditioning, social recognition, open field, elevated plus maze, conditioned place preference, radial and Y-maze, marble burying, grooming, novel object recognition, tail suspension, forced swim, and several motor and pain assays. Equipment includes two rooms outfitted with Noldus Ethovision XT. Maze equipment includes elevated plus maze, water maze, and T maze. Several of the behavior boxes are equipped with lasers for optogenetics and fiber photometry.
