Role of specific subtypes of interneurons in novel spatial attention task for mice

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06861
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Neurophysiology / General neuroscience
• Research Institution: Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
• Principal Investigator: Aoki Ryo 国立研究開発法人理化学研究所, 脳科学総合研究センター, 研究員 (70757137)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: イメージング / マウス / 意思決定

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I succeeded in establishing an automated training system and now we can train at maximum 48 mice in parallel, which significantly improve our research efficacy. This result is already reported in 2015 and 2016 Society of Neuroscience meeting. Furthermore, these results are already summarized in a scientific article and submitted. The establishment of training system was unexpectedly successful and this itself is an achievement, but as I focused on the manuscript preparation and the establishment of attention paradigm as originally planned is slightly delayed. However, I already finished the preparation of behavioral paradigm and now searching for optimal parameters for experiment.

Free Research Field

神経科学