Simmons University

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

A Video Repository for Innovative Methods of Dietary Assessment and Analysis

Sabri Bromage^1,2, Teresa T. Fung³, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick⁴, Walter C. Willett²

¹Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, ²Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, ³Department of Nutrition, Simmons University, ⁴School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo

A Video Repository for Innovative Methods of Dietary Assessment and Analysis

Neuroscience

Quantification of Drosophila melanogaster Grooming Behavior for Evaluation of Excessive Grooming Phenotypes

Theodore Hatfield¹, Seth Johnson¹

¹Simmons University

The method presented here involves the manual annotation of footage acquired of Drosophila melanogaster for specific grooming behaviors. It allows for quantification of both the number of grooming bouts and overall time spent grooming to evaluate for atypical self-grooming phenotypes.