Cognitive Translational Behavioural Pharmacology Group

Members

Postergalery

Projects:

• Establishment of a cognitive test battery with high translational value

 Experimental Methods:

• 5-choice serial reaction time task – attention and impulsivity
• Morris Water-maze – spatial memory
• Barnes maze – spatial memory
• Place recognition – spatial memory
• Spontaneous alternation – short term spatial memory
• Cooperation task in the Skinner box – social cognition
• Cooperation task on the See-saw – social cognition
• Release box – social cognition
• Novel object recognition – recognition memory
• Fear conditioning – fear memory
• Passive avoidance – fear memory
• Shuttle-box – fear memory
• Pot jumping – motor learning
• Locomotor activity measurement – locomotor activity
• Elevated plus-maze – anxiety
• Conditioned place preference – testing addictive and aversive drugs

Collaborations:

• University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and clinical Pharmacy, Laboratory of Neurophychopharmacology and Ethological Studies
• University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, USA
• Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics
• Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) Institute of Experimental Medicine
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) Research Center for Natural Sciences