A Researcher's Guide to Rodent Behavior

Dr. Deacon is a research lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, who specializes in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in the role of the hippocampus and associated cortex in Alzheimer’s disease. He has more than forty years of experience “at the bench” performing behavioral testing on manifold rodent species, and has published more than 100 research articles and methods papers on rodent behavior investigations. Dr. Schulz is faculty at Bogaziçi University, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Life Sciences and Technologies, in Istanbul, Türkiye. Trained in psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and behavioral neuroimaging, the behavioral sciences are key to all of her projects. Her research typically focuses on methods development, including animal models of psychiatric and neurological disease, preclinical neuroimaging, experience-dependent deep brain stimulation, and more. While her work is inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral, behavior remains the gateway to studying the brain systemically, dynamically, and in all its complexity.

1. Why Use Animals?
2. Laboratory Animals: Brief History, Choosing the Best Animal for the Job
3. Making Apparatus
4. Dementia and Other Illnesses
5. The Hippocampus in Man and Animals
6. Planning
7. Statistical Analysis
8. Motor Protocols
9. Sensory Protocols
10. Species-Typical Protocols
11. Cognitive Protocols
12. Affective Protocols
13. Stereotaxic Techniques