Behavioral pharmacology

 Methods

• Avoidance conditioning (active, e.g. shuttle-box; passive, e.g. step-down inhibitory avoidance)
• Operant (instrumental) conditioning
• Discrimination learning (auditory discrimination, e.g. shuttle-box go/no go procedure; brightness discrimination)
• Spatial learning (radial maze, Y-maze, hole board)
• Fear conditioning (e.g. conditioned freezing, context or cue dependent)
• Open field behavior (video technique, computer analysis)
• Locomotor activity (home cage, novel environment)
• Behavioral observations (e.g. grooming, rearing, etc.)
• Stereotaxic techniques (brain electrodes and cannulae, brain microinjection, lesion)
• EMG and EEG recording and analysis
• Sleep recording, sleep-wake pattern evaluation