Procedures for behavioral experiments in head-fixed mice

ZV Guo, SA Hires, N Li, DH O'Connor, T Komiyama… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The mouse is an increasingly prominent model for the analysis of mammalian neuronal
circuits. Neural circuits ultimately have to be probed during behaviors that engage the …

Am I drinking enough? Yes, no, and maybe

SN Cheuvront, RW Kenefick - Journal of the American College of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Adequate fluid intake can be dually defined as a volume of fluid (from water, beverages, and
food) sufficient to replace water losses and provide for solute excretion. A wide range of fluid …

GDNF gene therapy for alcohol use disorder in male non-human primates

MM Ford, BE George, VS Van Laar, KM Holleran… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) exacts enormous personal, social and economic costs globally.
Return to alcohol use in treatment-seeking patients with AUD is common, engendered by a …

Thirst-dependent risk preferences in monkeys identify a primitive form of wealth

H Yamada, A Tymula, K Louie… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Experimental economic techniques have been widely used to evaluate human risk attitudes,
but how these measured attitudes relate to overall individual wealth levels is unclear …

Physiological, behavioral, and scientific impact of different fluid control protocols in the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

H Gray, H Bertrand, C Mindus, P Flecknell, C Rowe… - Eneuro, 2016 - eneuro.org
Rhesus macaques are an important model in behavioral neuroscience due to their
advanced cognitive abilities. To motivate animals to engage in complex tasks, fluid rewards …

Blood analysis of laboratory Macaca mulatta used for neuroscience research: investigation of long-term and cumulative effects of implants, fluid control, and laboratory …

D Wegener, DQP Oh, H Lukaß, M Böer, AK Kreiter - Eneuro, 2021 - eneuro.org
The nonhuman primate (NHP) constitutes an extraordinarily important model in
neuroscience research for understanding the neuronal underpinnings of perceptual, motor …

Low and high beta rhythms have different motor cortical sources and distinct roles in movement control and spatiotemporal attention

S Nougaret, L López-Galdo, E Caytan, J Poitreau… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Low and high beta frequency rhythms were observed in the motor cortex, but their respective
sources and behavioral correlates remain unknown. We studied local field potentials (LFPs) …

A method for evaluating hunger and thirst in monkeys by measuring blood ghrelin and osmolality levels

Y Suwa, J Kunimatsu, A Kamata, M Matsumoto… - Eneuro, 2024 - eneuro.org
Hunger and thirst drive animals' consumption behavior and regulate their decision-making
concerning rewards. We previously assessed the thirst states of monkeys by measuring …

System for scoring severity of acute radiation syndrome response in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

GL King, DJ Sandgren, JM Mitchell… - Comparative …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
We developed a clinical assessment tool for use in an NHP radiation model to 1) quantify
severity responses for subsyndromes of the acute radiation syndrome (ARS; that is …

Ethograms indicate stable well-being during prolonged training phases in rhesus monkeys used in neurophysiological research

SR Hage, T Ott, AK Eiselt, SN Jacob… - Laboratory …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Awake, behaving rhesus monkeys are widely used in neurophysiological research. Neural
signals are typically measured from monkeys trained with operant conditioning techniques …