The Rodent Behavior Core, located in Berg, is slated to open to the NYULMC research community in September, 2012. The Rodent Behavior Core will provide facilities and equipment for:

• Spatial Learning and Memory (Morris Water Maze, Place Preference)
• Associative Memory Formation (Fear Conditioning)
• Anxiety and Depression (Elevated Plus, Forced Swim, Tail Suspension, Sucrose Preference)
• Sensory Motor Gating (Prepulse Inhibition, Acoustic Startle) 
• Drug Addiction and Withdrawal (Conditioned Place Preference, Locomotor Hyperactivity) 
• Social Learning (Three Chambered Arena) 
• Novelty Detection (Objection Recognition) 
• Motor Learning (Rotating Rod test)
• Perseverative Learning (Y-Maze) 
• Working Memory (Radial Arm Maze) 
• Real time video tracking to adapt user designed paradigms

Mouse Behavior facilities and equipment are currently available in a limited capacity in the Smilow vivarium procedure room.

For more information contact Chuck Hoeffer, PhD, charles.hoeffer@nyumc.org.