> Lab Space

Lab Procedures and Protocols (...in construction...):

- Rat behavioral training

- Handling rats, and Pretraining.
- Training (sequence task, reward processing task).
- Recording behavioral data with Lick and Run 1.0. and RatTracker 1.0.
- Using Labbook (electronic lab notebook)
- Analyzing data with the AnalyzeThis 1.3 Excel/Visual basic spreadsheet.

- Tetrode recordings

- Making tetrodes, building a hyperdrive, doing surgery, recovering a hyperdrive.
- Using Labbook (electronic lab notebook)
- Recording extracellular data with Cheetah 5.
- Tetrode turning with Labbook.
- Analyzing data with Matlab functions.
- Psyc 4/596L class: "Introduction to Neural Data Analyses" .

- Patch clamp recordings

- Solutions and slice preparation.
- Booting up/ Shuting down the rig.
- Patch clamp procedure: current clamp.
- Patch clamp procedure: reactive clamp.
- Recording data with Patch 8.0.

- Histology

- General procedures (obtaining the brain, storing the brain, slicing the brain)
- NISSL staining
- TOH staining

- Computational modeling

- General introduction to NEURON.
- Psyc 4/503 class: "Introduction to Computational Neuroscience".
- Set of NEURON utilities and functions

- General Lab Procedures

- Backups (data, user files, shared files)
- General procedures (ordering, cleaning, card and key access, injuries-safety)