Core Services

Behavioral Measurement Core

The Behavioral Measurement Core supports efforts to integrate human and animal studies of neurodevelopmental disorders through a focus on specific behavioral markers and specific behavioral processes in both humans and mouse models of human disease.

The core is composed of two laboratories: the Human Behavioral Phenotyping Laboratory and the Mouse Behavioral Phenotyping Laboratory . These facilities are available for all aspects of state-of-the-art measurement of mouse behavior and selected aspects of human behavior; training in behavioral measurement and consultation regarding the interface of rodent models of human behavioral condidtions with human studies.

Core Functions

The Behavioral Measurement Core is designed to provide information and technical support for NDRC investigators whose research can be enhanced by the use of observational research methods to assess behavioral phenotypes in humans and in mice. Advances in the methods used for this type of assessment have created technical and methodological challenges for the naive user. This core has assisted investigators conducting observational research by providing information (including consultation, training, and instruction), research laboratories (specifically, an eye-movement monitoring laboratory and a mouse behavioral phenotype laboratory), and technological support (including hardware, software and media) for cutting-edge approaches to observational research aimed at assessing behavioral phenotypes.

Goals

This co-directed core strives toward concurrence across observational techniques that can be used with humans and mice. The first step toward this goal is to establish and maintain state of the art laboratories in both domains.

Human Behavioral Phenotying Laboratory
Director/contact: Steve Reznick, Ph.D.

Mouse Behavioral Phenotying Laboratory
Director/contact: Sheryl Moy, Ph.D.