Motor domain
Motor Scores
Grip test; Catalepsy test; Open field; Cylinder test; Rotarod
Clinical Scores
EAE; ALS; Prion; NSS
Parkinson’s Disease Scores
Non-Pharmacological: Stepping, Placing, Wire grasping test, Pole test
Pharmacological: Rotational asymmetry
Cognitive, learning and memory domain
Novel object recognition; Radial arm water maze; T-maze; Y-maze; Eight arm maze; Morris water maze: Cued and context fear conditioning; Attentional set shifting; Open field habituation
Psychosis-like domain
MK801 – induced hyperlocomotion; MK-801-induced pre-pulse inhibition
Depressive-like domain
Forced swim test; Novelty suppressed feeding; Saccharin preference; Tail suspension
Anxiety-like domain
Elevated plus maze; Open field; Light-dark box; Stress induced hyperthermia; Startle response; Peripheral stress-related biomarkers (corticosterone, ACTH)
Social domain
Three chambers sociability and social novelty test; Social interaction in pairs; Resident intruder test, Tube dominance test
Intellicage
This programmable cage uses sophisticated software