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Operant Sensation Seeking in the Mouse Published on JOVE

November 10, 2010

See how researchers at Vanderbilt University used Med Associates Drug Self-Administration Test Package for Mouse combined with one of our Interface and Software packages in a recently published experiment, "Operant Sensation Seeking in the Mouse" on JOVE.

Validation Study Using Med Associates Automated Video Fear Conditioning System Published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

October 1, 2010

Med Associates staff, along with the laboratory of Dr. Stephan Anagnostaras at the University of California San Diego, recently had a manuscript titled “Automated assessment of Pavlovian conditioned freezing and shock reactivity in mice using the VideoFreeze system” published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (Anagnostaras S.G., Wood S.C., Shuman, T., Cai D.K., LeDuc…

Novel Apparatus and Method for Drug Reinforcement Published on JOVE

August 20, 2010

See how researchers at the University of Texas, Austin use Med Associates Drug Self-Administration Test Package for Rat combined with our Individual Infrared Source and Detector and MED-PC® IV Software in a recently published experiment, “Novel Apparatus and Method for Drug Reinforcement” on JOVE.

Assessment of Ultrasonic Vocalizations During Drug Self-administration in Rats Published on JOVE

July 22, 2010

See how MED-PC® IV Software was used in a recently published experiment, “Assessment of Ultrasonic Vocalizations During Drug Self-administration in Rats” on JOVE.

Med Associates Announces Re-Design of Modular Mazes Product Line

April 14, 2010

Med Associates is pleased to announce the re-design of our modular mazes product line, making it easier than ever to get high quality video recordings of animal behavior in our Radial Arm Maze, T-Maze and new Y-Maze. Features: New Y-hub style maze for rat and mouse Optional blue runways for improved contrast in video applications…

Med Associates Inc. Appoints Local Sales Agent for Shanghai, China Regions

January 1, 2010

Med Associates Inc. announced that Shanghai Youer Equipment Scientific Co., Ltd. (www.youerinc.com.cn) will serve as our exclusive sales and support representative for the territories of Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Jiangxi Province. For researchers in Shanghai Province, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Jiangxi Province, please contact: Shanghai Youer Equipment Scientific Co, Ltd. Ellen Deng…

Med Associates V.P. of Research and Development to Present Platform Talk at AALAS 2009

October 3, 2009

“Wheel Running and Cage Climbing as Distinct Measures of Activity in Two Strains of Mice” Dr. Gerry Herrera, Vice President of Research and Development at Med Associates, will be delivering a platform talk titled “Wheel Running and Cage Climbing as Distinct Measures of Activity in Two Strains of Mice” during the husbandry/management session at the…

Announcing the next workshop in Med Associates’ Short Courses in Neuroscience series… An Introduction to Behavioral Research Protocol Programming: Getting Started with MED-PC®

August 5, 2009

Join us at the next Med Associates’ Short Courses in Neuroscience series workshop… An Introduction to Behavioral Research Protocol Programming: Getting Started with MED-PC® Held in conjunction with the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago. Tuesday, October 20; 9am – 3:30pm Renaissance Chicago Hotel, Chicago, IL $250 (Scholarships are available to…

Med Associates Responds to Coulbourn Instruments e-Response Newsletter Claims

May 21, 2009

At Med Associates, we recently became aware of an electronic newsletter circulated by another behavioral instrument provider, Coulbourn Instruments. In their May 2009 issue of e-Response, Coulbourn Instruments delivered a communication which is false, misleading, and slanderous as applied to Med Associates. Coulbourn failed to identify direct targets of their accusations, so the reader is…

Med Associates and Noldus Announce Collaboration

March 26, 2009

    Med Associates and Noldus signed into effect an agreement that allows Med Associates to offer Noldus Ethovision XT software as a video tracking solution with our mazes and arenas. In addition, Noldus will offer Med Associates mazes and arenas in conjunction with Ethovision XT software. Med Associates will be able to provide technical…