CNRS (Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, UMR 8002)

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Neuroscience

Long-term Sensory Conflict in Freely Behaving Mice

Filipa França de Barros^1,2, Julie Carcaud², Mathieu Beraneck^1,2

¹Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, UMR8002, CNRS, ²Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes

The presented protocol produces a persistent sensory conflict for experiments aimed at studying long-term learning. By permanently wearing a fixed device on their heads, mice are continuously exposed to a sensory mismatch between visual and vestibular inputs while freely moving in home cages.

Neuroscience

In Vivo Intracerebral Stereotaxic Injections for Optogenetic Stimulation of Long-Range Inputs in Mouse Brain Slices

Louis Richevaux^1,2, Louise Schenberg^1,2, Mathieu Beraneck^1,2, Desdemona Fricker^1,2

¹CNRS (Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, UMR 8002), ²Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité

This protocol describes a set of methods to identify the cell-type specific functional connectivity of long-range inputs from distant brain regions using optogenetic stimulations in ex vivo brain slices.