Industry and Academia can interact to develop new equipment and new tools that are either useful to ameliorate the research itself or better products to be sold on the market.

EMMA, in collaboration with the small company PRS Italia, has developed a home cage panel, suitable for testing lab animals with operant tasks without need of moving them away of the home cage. This collaborative project is listed among EMMA's Ongoing Activities (point six), and any ongoing achievement will be reported here below...

2010 - Abstracts have been just presented to the Measuring Behavior 2010 congress about two recent experiments (see Experiment Chart) which were useful (a) to refine the role played by duration of timeout (and of session) in rats' ID task (Zoratto et al.) and (b) to develop and validate the automated home-cage IGT task (Koot et al.).   

2008 - The home-cage operant panel was first presented to the public during Measuring Behavior 2008 congress.  Two papers are prepared so far, one on home-cage impulsivity task (BRM) and one on gambling task (just submitted to Brain Behavioral Function, july 2010).  

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