Introduction
Welcome to the Unit of Behavioral Studies, in the core facility of Institute of Experimental Medicine, which provides extensive opportunities, EU standards-compliant housing and a large equipment pool for behavioural experiments on mice and rats.
The unit has 5 animal rooms, where the animals live in normal or reverse cycle illumination. There are also 7 experimental rooms with normal, red or infrared lighting, with ceiling-mounted cameras.
Basic neuroscience needs behavioral characterisation of animal models to improve its translational value.
If …
- you have a new model to study neural processes in vivo
- you would like to phenotype your new transgenic animal strain
- you or your reviewer need to confirm the conclusion of your recent results
- you have a new drug candidate or
- you would like to develop novel treatment approaches for neuronal or psychiatric disorders
…the Unit of Behavioral Studies is an ideal choice to design comprehensive behavioral test series.
Reliable, experienced scientific background provides widespread test series for behavioral experiments.
In addition to serving the needs of the Institute, the Unit is also capable of carrying out external assignments, from designing experiments to implementation and evaluation of resulted data.
The Unit is open to all researchers who have a valid Animal Experimentation Licence and are qualified to carry out experiments on animals.
The Unit is qualified as Biosafety Level 1 (BSL1) and Animal Biosafety Level 1 (ABSL1) according to the CDC BMBL classification.
The Unit was funded by the Infrastructure Development Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and opened in 2014.