Rhode Island College

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Behavior

Use of an Eight-arm Radial Water Maze to Assess Working and Reference Memory Following Neonatal Brain Injury

Stephanie C. Penley¹, Cynthia M. Gaudet², Steven W. Threlkeld¹

¹Department of Psychology, Rhode Island College, ²Department of Biology, Rhode Island College

The eight-arm radial water maze is designed to evaluate reference and working memory performance simultaneously by requiring subjects to use extra-maze cues to locate escape platforms and remedies the limitations observed in land based radial arm maze designs.

Neuroscience

Dissection and Immunohistochemistry of the Drosophila Adult Leg to Detect Changes at the Neuromuscular Junction for an Identified Motor Neuron

Geoff Stilwell¹, Anthony Agudelo^*1,2

¹Department of Biology, Rhode Island College, ²Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

We describe a dissection technique that preserves the architecture of the neuromuscular junction and enables a detailed immunocytochemical study of motor neurons in the adult Drosophila leg.