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 Carcaud 2, 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.