General Health

• Body weight / temperature
• Home cage activity patterns
• Food and Drinking
  

Motor and sensory function screening

• Motor function
  General locomotor activity (open field test)
  Motor coordination and balance (rotarod, vertical pole test)
  Neuromuscular abnormality (hanging wire test)
  Reproducible activity (circadian wheel running)
  
• Sensory function
  Olfactory acuity (odor discrimination test)
  Visual acuity (visual cliff test, light/dark choice test)
  Auditory acuity (acoustic startle)
  Taste (two-bottle choice test)
  Touch (flinch response)
  Pain sensitivity (tail flick test, Von Frey hair, hot-plate test, formalin test, )

Cognitive and emotional state screening

• Learning and memory
  Morris water maze test
  Cued and contextual conditioning
  Passive and active avoidance test
  Co nditioned taste aversion
  Eyeblink conditioning
  Behavioral stratege (Y maze, eight-arm radial arm maze)

• Attention
  Prepulse inhibition test

• Social behavior
  Social interaction (huddling, nesting, juvenile play behavior)
  Aggression (isolation-induced fighting, resident-intruder test, social dominance test)

• Reproductive behavior
  Sexual behavior (copulation test, sexual motivation test)
  Parenting (nursing, nest building, retrieval behavior observation)

• Emotion
  Fear-related behavior (cued and contextual conditioning, fear-potentiated startle, Ultrasonic vocalization)
  Anxiety-related behavior (light/dark preference, elevated plus maze, vogel conflict test)
  Depression-related behavior (forced swim test, learned helplessness, tail suspension test)
  Schizophrenia-related behavior (locomotor activity, prepulse inhibition)

• Reward
  Conditioned-place preference

Electrophysiological test

• Electroencephalography
• Electromyography
• Electrocardiography
• Long-term potentiation (in vivo)