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MouBeAT: A New and Open Toolbox for Guided Analysis of Behavioral Tests in Mice

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, September 2018
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Title
MouBeAT: A New and Open Toolbox for Guided Analysis of Behavioral Tests in Mice
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, September 2018
DOI 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00201
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Elísabet Bello-Arroyo, Hélio Roque, Alberto Marcos, Javier Orihuel, Alejandro Higuera-Matas, Manuel Desco, Valeria R. Caiolfa, Emilio Ambrosio, Enrique Lara-Pezzi, María Victoria Gómez-Gaviro

Abstract

Animal behavioral tests are essential to understand the bases of neurologic and psychological disorders, which can be evaluated by different methodological and experimental models. However, the quantification of behavioral tests results is limited by the considerable amount of time needed for manual evaluation and the high costs of automated analysis software. To overcome these limitations, we describe here a new, open source toolbox for ImageJ, called Mouse Behavioral Analysis Toolbox (MouBeAT), designed to analyze different behavioral tests in rodents semi-automatically. These tests include Open Field (OF), Elevated Plus Maze (EPM), Y-maze (YM) test and Morris Water Maze (MWM). MouBeAT showed a high correlation with manual evaluation in all the parameters analyzed for all the behavioral tests, reinforcing its value as an accurate analysis tool. This new tool is freely available online.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 76 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 17%
Researcher 12 16%
Student > Master 9 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 4%
Other 13 17%
Unknown 21 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 27 36%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 26 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2018.
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#6,839,294
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Outputs from Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
#1,086
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#118,522
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
#35
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