Equipment for studying animal behavior:
- Physical/locomotor activity recording (open field arena, rodent treadmills, body motion detection and video recording system for long-term activity recording)
- Assessment of cognitive function (memory/learning/decision making) and emotional state (Novel Object Recognition test, T-maze test, Plus maze test, Conditional place preference box)
- Social behaviour detection (rodent ultrasonic vocalization recording system)
- Pain measurement and assessment (hot/cold plate test for thermal hyperalgesia/allodynia, Hargreaves device to assess thermal pain threshold, Von Frey device to assess mechanical pain threshold)
- Fluid consumption recording (optical lickometers system for studying the structure of the rat drink and estimating the amount of fluid consumed)
Electrophysiological equipment for nervous system research:
- Electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyogram (EMG) recording equipment: three-channel amplifiers and OneBox acquisition system (Imec, Belgium)
- Single unit extracellular activity recording equipment intended for recording the activity of a large number of individual cells (Neuropixels, Imec, Belgium)