“The Behavioral Spectrometer is the most versatile piece of equipment in my lab and also one of the most robust and reliable. It has revolutionized how I spend my time – namely NOT watching and scoring videos for hours on end! I can get from set-up to data in a fraction of the time as watching videos frame by frame and I can actually get sufficient sample size and analysis completed in a single day. Novice users can get detailed and accurate data –with under an hour training – it is almost completely idiot-proof. This equipment also allows scoring phenotypes that are incredibly difficult or almost impossible to score any other way, even for experienced users. The Behavioral Spectrometer can address so many different indications and in such a range of behavioral domains that the applications are virtually limitless. As director of a shared facility, we have a really diverse range of rodent models, from pain to aging, neurodegenerative and development disorders, infectious disease, and many genetic models. During the time I had the Behavior Spectrometer, all my users were happy with the data (and the decreased cost!) and it is still one of my most requested assays. All I can say is that even my most parsimonious users are kicking in to get this permanently in the Behavioral Core.”

“The Behavioral Spectrometer provides a continuous and comprehensive analysis of all behaviors subjects engage in during open field sessions. It provides a second by second quantification of behavioral occurances tallied over session bins. It is easy to operate and adaptable for many additional paradigms and is particularly effective at revealing age, sex and genotypic differences, treatment effects, and the effects of drugs on behavior.”