Cognitive Function
- Novel Object Recognition
- Object Placement – Visuospatial – Pattern Recognition
- Social Discrimination Memory
- Spontaneous and Delayed Alternation
- Morris Water Maze
- Sensorimotor Gaiting
- Radial Arm Maze
- Conditioned Taste Aversion
- Conditioned Place Preference
- Labyrinth Maze
- Barnes Maze
- Set Shifting
- Conditioned Fear
- Marble Burying
Affective / Emotional Behaviors
- Social Interaction / Social Preference
- Social Transmission of Food Preferences
- Reproductive and mating behavior
- Open Field (exploratory behavior, risk)
- Marble Burying (neophobia, compulsions, anxiety)
- Elevated Plus Maze (anxiety)
- Light/Dark Box (anxiety)
- Acoustic Startle
- Porsolt (Forced Swim) Test (depression)
- Tail Suspension (depression)
- Anhedonia (depression)
- Novelty Suppressed Feeding
Tests of Analgesia
- Von Frey (sensory, allodynia)
- Cold Tail Flick
- Hargreaves (thermal, pain)
Sensorimotor Function
- Open Field (activity, habituation, sensitization)
- Rotarod (motor coordination, motor learning)
- Grip Strength (sensorimotor function, muscle strength)
- Balance Beam (motor coordination)
- Visual Placing (visual acuity)
- Visual Cliff (visual acuity and depth perception)
- Pupil dilation
- Acoustic Startle and Prepulse Inhibition
- Automated Gait Analysis
- Tape Removal Test – Fine Motor Coordination
- Parallel Rod Floor Test
- Negative Geotaxis and Righting Reflex
- Skilled Reaching, Oromotor (Sunflower Seed Test)
Other
- Ultrasonic Vocalizations
- Functional Observation Battery (Primary Screen, Neurological Screen)
- Estrous Cycle Staging
- Behavioral Tracking software (Viewer Ethovision and AnyMaze) – Mobile license with dongle
- Grooming
- Stereotypies
- Developmental Milestones
- Homing behavior in pups
- Olfaction
- Behavioral Spectrometer
- Taste Preferences (food and drink)