Greetings for the new year to all. Time does really pass so quickly. Amazingly, the new year is already two weeks old. With reference to behavioral research and corporate advancements, we ended with some of our personal highlights. Time to take another look back now. The Behavioral Research Blog had a plethora of new posts published last year. Let us review the most read blog entries on animal behavior research in .
Our top ten blog articles about animal behavior
See which post ranks highest among the animal behavioral research posts you read on our Behavioral Research Blog last year by continuing to read!
10. How a behavioral analysis facility might characterize whole behavioral phenotypes
Presentation of the Facility for Behavioral Analysis. Various functional tests are used by researchers to assess the behavioral and functional properties of novel pharmacological medicines. Discover more about current research at this lab, including studies investigating the connection between food intake and mood problems, by reading on to view their recent projects or by watching their user story.
Using a variety of functional tests including anxiety, fear, eating and drinking, metabolism, development (neonatal development and maternal behavior), learning and memory, pain, motor behavior, neurotoxicity, and stroke, researchers at this lab assess the behavioral and functional activities of new pharmacological drugs.
9. Moving toward automatic group housed rat homecage monitoring
Research on neuropsychiatric diseases benefits much from rodent social behavior, yet significant obstacles stand in the way. PhD candidate Suzanne Peters defended her thesis, “The value of rat social behavior for translational research.” An ethnological methodology” in . Two posts out of this Top 10 are guest blog posts.
8. Into the lab: rat social behaviour monitoring
Following her entry at number nine is the second blog post by Suzanne Peters, PhD. She created an automated analysis during her PhD study that makes socially interacting rats monitorable.
7. How smoking’s increased rewarding effect is lessened by blood sugar normalization
Smoking and type 2 diabetes obviously both have major worldwide health consequences. Did you realise, though, that they are also related? As a matter of fact, using nicotine raises the chance of developing type 2. It also raises insulin resistance, which can aggravate diabetes. Get further information on this blog post.
6. Morris Water Maze task and Alzheimer research
Developed by Richard Morris, the Morris water maze test is now one of the most often used memory and learning tests for rodents. Readers of our Behavioral Research Blog liked it as well.
5. An improved rat model of neonatal white matter damage
One of the main issues in neonatal medicine is preterm delivery. One crucial step in identifying novel therapeutic possibilities is the development of a new animal model by Erik van Tilborg, a PhD student in Cora Nijboer’s research group at the laboratory for Neuroimmunology and Developmental Origins of Disease (NIDOD), UMC Utrecht, NL.
4. Analyzing clinically relevant Parkinson’s disease symptoms in a rat model using gait analysis
Gait analysis, in contrast to conventional techniques, can identify clinically significant symptoms early on, claim researchers. They created two rat models of PD using Cat Walk XT gait analysis to look at several gait metrics in an effort to identify early on any similarities to human PD symptoms.
3. A rat study on exercise vs anabolic steroids
Presenting our top three blog entries on animal behavior studies from the previous year! A new study demonstrates that anabolic steroids reduce the beneficial effects of exercise in rats.
2. Autistic traits in zebrafish result from Down syndrome gene knockout
Genetically variable set of neurodevelopmental illnesses, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is not a single disease. It is therefore difficult to pinpoint a single, identifiable cause—like a single gene associated with autism. Recent research, however, raises the possibility that autism may be caused in part by aberrant DYRK1A gene function.
1. Cry! A current research on the immune system and PTSD
The immune system is impacted by stress and anxiety, as is somewhat common knowledge. Particularly in cases with psychiatric illnesses, this can be quite problematic. Crucial neurological components in the physical and psychological effects of this illness are now being identified by researchers.
Posts about animal behavior
We can now turn our attention to the future after finishing. Looking forward to another thrilling year of blogging are my fellow bloggers and the guest bloggers for Noldus. Anticipate more blog entries on the most recent advancements in animal behavior research!
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