Straight alley

Apparatus

Our straight alley is composed of:

• an aluminum structure
• a corridor
• a departure and an ending box
• a tight network of infrared beams, to locate precisely the animal
• an automatic rewarding system (pellets or liquid)
• an automatic system of intracerebral drug injection in the “self-administration” version

Software

Our software:

• displays graphs in real time
• records all movements detected by the infrared beams
• scores latency, hesitations, time to go, speed,…
• controls the distribution of the reward, and the injection in our “self-administration” version
• manages the experiments per sessions

The data are classified and exported into a Microsoft Excel file.