Current Techniques
(this page is updated as of 7/25/2022)
Behavior
Open field, Novel Object Exploration/Recognition, Social Interaction, Conditioned Place Preference/Aversion, Elevated Zero Maze, Rotarod, Instrumental and Pavlovian Conditioning
Med Associates behavior boxes
Sound attenuated behavior chamber with open field setup
Neuroanatomy
In situ hybridization (RNAscope) and immunohistochemistry
Lab bench and hybridization ovens
Fast scan cyclic voltammetry
Voltammetry rig
Current-voltage color plot
Ex vivo calcium imaging
sCMOS imaging of cells transduced with GCaMP6
Prime sCMOS camera from qImaging
Ex vivo electrophysiology
Electrophysiology rig
In vivo fiber photometry
Example of in vivo fiber photometry conducted in the laboratory
Chat-IRES-Cre+/- injected with AAV5-GCaMP6f virus and implanted with a photometry fiber in the NAc.