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1b. Behavioral assays (emotional, social, cognitive functions)
- Emotional and social behavior
– Anxiety: Elevated plus maze, open field, light-dark box, marble burying, novelty-suppressed feeding)
– Depression: Forced swimming, tail suspension, sucrose preference
– Aggression: Isolation-induced aggression
– Autism/social withdrawal: Social interaction, two-cage sociability test
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- Memory and cognition
– Spontaneous alternation (T-maze, Y-maze)
– Novel object recognition
– Novel odor recognition
– Object – place recognition
– Morris swim task (watermaze)
– Foraging in 8-arm radial maze
– Rewarded spatial two-choice tasks (T-maze, igloo)
– Cue and context fear conditioning
– Inhibitory avoidance
– Habit learning and reversal in T-maze