Feeding behaviors depend on intrinsic and extrinsic factors including genetics, food
palatability, and the environment. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 The gut microbiota is a major environmental …

Background Measuring food intake in rodents is a conceptually simple yet labor-intensive
and temporally-imprecise task. Most commonly, food is weighed manually, with an interval of …

Laboratory behavioural tasks are an essential research tool. As questions asked of
behaviour and brain activity become more sophisticated, the ability to specify and run richly …

The development of a touchscreen platform for rodent testing has allowed new methods for
cognitive testing that have been back-translated from clinical assessment tools to preclinical …

In humans, excessive gestational weight gain during pregnancy is associated with an
increased risk for executive function deficits in the offspring. Our previous work has …

Background Rodents have been used for decades to probe neural circuits involved in
behavior. Increasingly, attempts have been developed to standardize training paradigms …

Understanding how the brain controls behavior requires observing and manipulating neural
activity in awake behaving animals. Neuronal firing is timed at millisecond precision …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) printing is opening new opportunities in biomedicine by
enabling creative problem solving, faster prototyping of ideas, advances in tissue …

The acquisition of experimental equipment has become a problem, due to its high costs. To
partially solve this problem, the scientific community has used the Arduino data acquisition …

Advances in biologging technologies have significantly improved our ability to track
individual animals' behaviour in their natural environment. Beyond observations, automation …