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Med Associates customer, Steven Maier just released his findings on the effects of exercise on memory and the brain. Published in the August issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, his lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder has found that compounds produced in the brain during physical exercise help to guard against memory loss. Read…
Entitled “Electrical Synapses Control Hippo-campal Contributions to Fear Learning and Memory”, this important paper examines how electrical synapses in the brain contribute to learning and memory. Their work, published this past January in Science, uses Med Associates Video Fear conditioning system to show how blocking the neuronal gap junctions within the dorsal hippo-campus can impair…
Med Associates announces an additional Short Course to take place during the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., An Introduction to Behavioral Research Protocol Programming: Getting Started with MED-PC®. This course is geared towards the beginner user of Med Associates operant conditioning equipment, including the powerful MED-PC® software. During the first part of…
Med Associates is pleased to introduce Ellen Deng and Shanghai Youer Equipment Scientific Co, Ltd as our exclusive representative for all Med Associates product lines in China. Ellen has been representing Med Associates in Shanghai since 2009 and we are very excited to expand our partnership throughout China. We are confident that Ellen’s high level…
See how researchers at the Department of Psychology Program in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, Scarborough used a array of Med Associates products including: Drug Self Administration Standard Chamber Package Aversive Stimulator/Scrambler Module Quick Disconnect Harness for Stainless Steel Grid Floor for Rat or Small Primate MED-PC® IV Software in a recently published experiment,…
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.
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…
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.
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 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…