All NCBC Behavior Equipment & Housing is located in Barrier (unless otherwise noted)
The NCBC is constantly looking for new behavioral assays to assist investigators in validating and phenotyping their mouse models. In this section you will find the services/equipment we currently offer.

Available resources
Models of Anxiety & Depression-Like Behavior
- Elevated Plus Maze
- Elevated Zero Maze
- Forced Swim
- Light/Dark Box
- Open Field
- Tail Suspension
Avoidance, Escape, & Learned Helplessness
- Active Avoidance
- Passive Avoidance
- Escape
- Learned Helplessness
- Acoustic Startle Response/PPI
- Conditioned Place Preference
- Fear (Threat) Conditioning
- Activity Monitoring
- EEG/EMG Recording
- Barnes Maze
- T-Maze
- Y-Maze
- Balance Beam
- Digigait
- Grip Strength (Force Meter)
- Rotarod
- Novel Object Recognition (NOR)
- Spatial Object Recognition (SOR)
- Autoshaping/Response Acquisition
- Pavlovian Conditioned Appraoch (PCA)
- Basic Schedules of Reinforcement: Fixed Ratio (FR)
- Motivation: Progressive Ratio (PR)
- Five-Choice Serial-Reaction Time Task (5-CSRTT)
- Three-Chamber Sociability Task
- Conditioned Place Preference