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Open source video analysis pipeline for investigation of animal behavior. Platform independent set of behavior analysis pipelines using interactive Python ( (iPython/Jupyter Notebook) that researchers with no prior programming experience can use.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to taste sensory system research in humans on behavioral, electrophysiological and hemodynamic activity levels.Provided system includes hardware and software tools.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to fear conditioning studies.Includes hardware and software tools. Provides Arduino based device for producing naturalistic stimuli which can be integrated with existing commercial operant chambers with few modifications.. Stores custom made .wav files on SD card, interfaces with Med System and plays the .wav files through ceiling mounted speakers.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to dispensing precise volumes of fluid over precise timescales.System components include syringe holder and control board with syringe pump controller and programming library.Syringe pump controller was developed by American University scientists.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project includes system for individualized training of group housed mice in single pellet reaching task.System allows user to host up to 5 mice in their home environment and automatically administer single pellet reaching test to those animals.Platform for training and assessing skilled reaching in mice with minimal need for experimenter handling.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to creating and controlling visual environments.Provided open source software package for creating and controlling visual environments was developed by University College London scientists.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to study of orientation behavior and neural circuit functions, through creation and analysis of small, freely moving animals in virtual realities. Provides virtual reality tool system for behavioral and neural circuit studies of small animals.Closed loop platform to study unrestrained sensorimotor behavior.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project is related to measurement of complex phenotypes in homecage. Homecage automated open source behavioral testing sytem to enable high throughput 24h testing of many standard operant paradigms. Using Arduino platform and easily sourced inexpensive components system can display light cues and dispense liquid rewards and has nosepoke receptacles with infrared detectors for operant responses, within homecage.Method provided by Dartmouth College scientists.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to study learning and memory in preclinical research.Included tracking system for object recognition tasks provides standardization across experiments and labs.Automates scoring process using capacitive sensors, while providing validated 3D-printed objects in order to standardize object recognition to study learning and memory in preclinical research.Used for accurate measurement of interaction time during object recognition tasks.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project is related to transcranial Electrical Stimulation.Included system contains aluminum box stimulator with banana connectors for both anode and cathode on front panel,power supply on rear, power switch and serial port, LCD screen and three buttons on top panel that are used to input settings for stimulator. Device for delivering non-invasive neuromodulation techniques such as transcranial direct current stimulation. If device is used for certain types of tDCS (otDCS and tPCs) or external triggering, computer control must be used. Microcontroller is used to regulate operating speed and pulse width modulation switching frequency administrated by device.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to accurately counting and monitoring the behavior of organisms.Provides open source capacitive touch sensing system.Capacitive sensors are positioned to readily detect direct physical touches from rodent under investigation. Device,designed around capacitive touch sensor MPR121,accurately counts and monitors behavior of organisms.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to conducting research on effects of nicotine vapor. Provides open source chamber system for rodents to experience regulated nicotine vapor exposure from JUUL electronic cigarette.Vapor exposure apparatus comprised of Arduino Uno microcontroller that relays coded instructions to H-bridge motor controller.H-bridge then sends specific signals to motors that regulate produced vapor sent to exposure chambers.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to fluorescent imaging. Provides single photon fluorescent imaging microscope systems. System includes modular in vivo all optical neurophysiology rigs with transparent hardware, and acquisition and analysis software.Provide designs for 3D printed, lightweight, wireless capable microscope and motorized commutator, designed for multi month monitoring neural activity of zebra finches while they sing their courtship songs. Adapted for rodents and birds such as canaries.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to training mice on task that requires continued updating of action/outcome relationships. Behavioral project includes task protocol and corresponding build instructions.Open source behavioral box used to train mice on task that requires continued updating of action/outcome relationships. Permits investigation of motivated behavior that requires flexible relationships between sensory stimuli and motor action. Project provided by Harvard Medical School scientists.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to neural recordings such as electrophysiology, calcium imaging, and optogenetics. Provides 3D-printed, motorized commutator for neural recordings of small animals in vivo.Open source motorized swivel for in vivo neural and behavioral recordings.Device operates independently of data acquisition system, and it can be controlled through any popular platform such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project is related to working with atlas data from multiple species on common platform.Provides collection of Python tools for working with atlas data from multiple species on common platform and for morphological analyses in systems neuroscience.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to fluorescence imaging to record neural activity in awake, freely behaving mice.Provided system is developed by UCLA scientists. Miniscope system includes Miniscope with single, flexible coaxial cable to carry power, control signals, and imaging data to open source Data Acquisition hardware and software. Open source miniature fluorescence microscope uses wide-field fluorescence imaging to record neural activity in awake, freely behaving mice.

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to time series calcium imaging evaluation and pre-processing. Included open source graphical viewer for time series calcium imaging evaluation and pre-processing is provided by Swedish University scientists .

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• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Portal includes compared several toolboxes for spike and LFP analysis, connectivity analysis, dimensionality reduction, and generalized linear modeling. Discussion about major features of software available for Python and MATLAB including Brainstorm, Chronux, Elephant, FieldTrip, gramm, Spike Viewer, and SPIKY. They include succinct tables for assessing system and program requirements, quality of documentation and support, and data types accepted by each toolbox.

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• SciCrunch
• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

Project related to calcium imaging.Provides software library, CaImAn, for one and two-photon Calcium Imaging data Analysis.

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• SciCrunch
• 5 years ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth