Behavioural Tests and Models

Full course description

As a neuroscientist, you will encounter behavioral animal experiments e.g. by working with animals or behavioral animal datasets yourself, or by reading publications that involve behavioral animal studies. Within the neuroscientific field, pre-clinical research still largely involves animal experiments, and such experiments require many considerations:

- Which models and tests are available and which should I use to answer my research question?

- What are the criteria for choosing the right model or test?

- How does this translate to a human situation?

Most importantly, behavioral animal experiments are a very careful balance between science and ethics to translate your research most optimally to a human situation.

The final assessment for this course is pass or fail - and not a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.