2nd Edition

Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience

Edited By Jerry J. Buccafusco Copyright 2009
374 Pages 87 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Behavioral techniques used in animals to model human diseases and predict effects of novel drugs are as varied as the numbers of scientists who use them. Consequently, behavioral analysis is becoming an increasingly indispensable tool for the neuroscientist as information gained at the molecular and cellular level is put into practice in fully behaving animal subjects. Uses Animal Behavior... Read more

Transgenic Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease: Behavioral Testing and Considerations, K.J. Bryan, H. Lee, G. Perry, M.A. Smith, and G. Casadesus

Cued and Contextual Fear Conditioning for Rodents, P. Curzon, N.R. Rustay, and K.E. Browman

Drug Discrimination, R. Young

Conditioned Place Preference, A.J. Prus, J.R. James, and J.A. Rosecrans

Anxiety-Related Behaviors in Mice, K.R. Bailey and J.N. Crawley

Behavioral Assessment of Antidepressant Activity in Rodents, V. Castagne, P. Moser, and R.D. Porsolt

Assessing Attention in Rodents, P.J. Bushnell and B.J. Strupp

The Behavioral Assessment of Sensorimotor Processes in the Mouse: Acoustic Startle, Sensory Gating, Locomotor Activity, Rotarod, and Beam Walking, P. Curzon, M. Zhang, R.J. Radek, and G.B. Fox

Intravenous Drug Self-Administration in Nonhuman Primates, L.L. Howell and W.E. Fantegrossi

Contextually Induced Drug Seeking During Protracted Abstinence in Rats, J.J. Buccafusco and L. Shuster

Operant Analysis of Fronto-striatal Function in Rodents, M.D. Dobrossy, S. Brooks, R. Trueman, P.J. Brasted, and S.B. Dunnett

Working Memory: Delayed Response Tasks in Monkeys, J.S. Rodriguez and M.G. Paule

Spatial Navigation (Water Maze) Tasks, A.V. Terry, Jr.

Water Maze Tasks in Mice: Special Reference to Alzheimer’s Transgenic Mice, D. Morgan

Behavioral Neuroscience of Zebrafish, E.D. Levin and D.T. Cerutti

Caenorhabditis elegans Model for Initial Screening and Mechanistic Evaluation of Potential New Drugs for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease, Y. Luo, Y. Wu, M. Brown, and C.D. Link

The Revival of Scopolamine Reversal for the Assessment of Cognition-Enhancing Drugs, J.J. Buccafusco

Index

Biography

Jerry J. Buccafusco