#neurorats — Public Fediverse posts

People who use rats in #SpatialCognition tasks, or decision-making tasks, which strain do you prefer? 🐀

(Ideally, please comment on why!)
(Multiple choices possible if you really have to)

#NeuroRats #Neuroscience #SpatialNavigation

Anyone knows of researchers that compare #Mice and #Rats behaviour (ideally in complex tasks)? It could be in #SpatialCognition but also in other fields. Papers that directly compare both species would also be great.

#BehaviouralNeuroscience #NeuroMice #NeuroRats

Old navigation papers always have hidden gems in them..

"This training period was marked by only two events of unusual interest. The first was an electric storm which occurred during the 18th trial. Thunder and lightning were almost incessant throughout this trial period. A large tree near the building was shattered by lightning. On this trial there was a great increase in average time, and a slight increase in the average number of errors. The other event, which occurred at the 22nd trial, was an unusually hot day-mercury at 103 F. The rats seemed almost overcome, and, upon being placed in the water, would float for a considerable length of time before starting to swim down the maze pathway. The average time was greatly increased. The errors, however, did not increase appreciably."

Source: The Rôle of Kinaesthesis in the Establishment and Control of the Maze Habit by Sol Evans, @johnwidloski pointed me to it

#SpatialNavigation #NeuroRats

What are some metals that rats not only cannot chew, but also do not like to chew on?
Trying to find the best material for a kind of nosepoke…
#NeuroMethods #NeuroRats

Please welcome the great @aheadofthenerve to Mastodon / the Fediverse! So nice to have another #PlaceCell #Neuroscientist on here 😁 (and also a #CalciumImaging expert)!

#Hippocampus #NeuroRats

From: @aheadofthenerve
https://neuromatch.social/@aheadofthenerve/111767478048631695

Here’s a really cool and complete Review on the behaviour and (a little) electrophysiology of spontaneous #Exploration in #NeuroRats and #NeuroMice. It will tell you all about #HomeBases and #Excursions and their differences between rats and mice. Why am I seeing this just now?!

Behavioral and neural subsystems of rodent exploration
#Hippocampus #ClarkLab #Navigation

#Introduction of my #Neuroscience-oriented account! 🧠​

I am a postdoctoral researcher investigating #NeuroRats 🐀​ doing flexible #Navigation 🗺️​ and how their #Hippocampus might support this fascinating ability.
Is it #PlaceCells?
Is it #HippocampalReplay?
​Is it #SplitterCells?
Is it everything, everywhere (... yes, yes, all at once)?

This account will post, boost and follow specifically neuroscience content, don't hesitate to tag it when relevant.

Followers, please tell us about yourself under my pinned tweet!

Old #NeuroRats eating (they can be housed together if you make sure the implant is strong and not tasty)
#Neuroscience #RatEnrichment

Another really cool #NeuroPaper, this one about rule-switching:
Sharp-wave-ripple-associated activity in the medial prefrontal cortex supports spatial rule switching

#KloostermanLab #mPFC #Hippocampus #SWR #NeuroRats #Optogenetics

#NeuroRats enjoying their playtime in the #RatCasle (and getting intrigued by the phone that’s filming them)
#RatEnrichment

⬆️ SO that paper was actually one of the most interesting papers on #PlaceCells and #NeuroRats that I’ve seen in a while! It does sound too fancy to be true, but - provided the authors do a bit more analyses of the movements during the task - it might be showing that rats can “intentionally” change the activity of their place cells?! While not changing their actual location, and during #Theta …. We were all pretty impressed!