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Just sharing some good news regarding funding that includes a bunch of plans for touchscreen research! To find out more: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news/2023/april/nfrf_grant_cognition.html Please feel free to post and celebrate all your touchscreen success stories from grants, posters, innovative solutions, community resources, to published data!...
Check out how touchscreens sneaks into another Open Behavior posts! This time with miniscopes! "A major challenge in carrying out behavioral studies that also measure electrophysiological or celllular imaging signals is integrating together the various behavioral and functional measurement systems. Coralie-Anne Mosser and colleagues have solved this problem...
Always great to see touchscreen research having an impact and getting into the media! Here is the latest news from the MouseTRAP core at Western University! "Using strawberry milkshakes, mouse models of disease, cutting-edge fibre optic technology, and touchscreens, researchers at Schulich School of Medicine &...
In addition to all our touchscreen-related SOPs, we have now included a section on neurotechology, so that your combined studies are poised for success. Check out our first SOP in the Helpful Neurotech Documents section titled "Optogenetics Best Practices". ...
New best practice cleaning document available! We hope this addition to our SOP list will further enhance touchscreen research!...
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Abstract Development of novel treatments for motivational deficits experienced by individuals with schizophrenia and major depressive disorder requires procedures that reliably assess effort-related behavior in pre-clinical models. High-throughput touchscreen-based testing, that parallels the computerized assessment of human patients, offers a platform for the establishment of tasks...
"MouseTRAP is a platform of touchscreen cognition tasks plus websites for data sharing that allows for improved rodent cognitive testing, standardization of rodent research practices, and increased data sharing in the field of rodent behavioral research. These features address persisting constraints in this field of...
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