Behavioural Specificity Studies

Behavioural Specificity Studies

Close inspection of the animal's behaviour while under the influence of a drug will reveal information as to the drug's mechanisms of behavioural activity, or potential behavioural toxicity. This information is essential to determine the compounds future development that may reflect positively on the compound's subsequent development or marketing. specialises in behavioural observation studies, coding and analysis.

Metabolic diseases: Visual coding of hunger and satiety sequences to define behavioural mechanisms of action of anorexic drugs.
Psychiatric diseases: Identification, coding and analysis of depressed-, anxious- or schizophrenic-like behaviours, and their modification by drug treatment.
Neurologic diseases: Identification, coding and analysis of behaviours altered by neurodegeneration and their modification by drug treatment.
Behavioural phenotyping of transgenic and/or null mutant animals.
Behavioural toxicity induced by novel drug treatment.