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Pixying Behavior: A Versatile Real-Time and Post Hoc Automated Optical Tracking Method for Freely Moving and Head Fixed Animals

Mostafa A. Nashaat, Hatem Oraby, Laura Blanco Peña, Sina Dominiak, Matthew E. Larkum and Robert N. S. Sachdev
eNeuro 14 February 2017, 4 (1) ENEURO.0245-16.2017; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0245-16.2017
Mostafa A. Nashaat
1Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 10099, Germany
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Hatem Oraby
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Laura Blanco Peña
1Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
3Erasmus Program, Faculdad de Biologia, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona 08007, Spain
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Sina Dominiak
1Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
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Matthew E. Larkum
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0245-16.2017
PubMed 
28275712
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History 
  • Received August 17, 2016
  • Revision received December 31, 2016
  • Accepted January 10, 2017
  • Published online February 14, 2017.
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Copyright © 2017 Nashaat et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

Author Information

  1. Mostafa A. Nashaat1,2,
  2. Hatem Oraby1,
  3. Laura Blanco Peña1,3,
  4. Sina Dominiak1,
  5. Matthew E. Larkum1 and
  6. Robert N. S. Sachdev1
  1. 1Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  2. 2Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 10099, Germany
  3. 3Erasmus Program, Faculdad de Biologia, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona 08007, Spain
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Robert N. S. Sachdev, at the above address, E-mail: bs387ster{at}gmail.com; or Matthew Larkum, at the above address, E-mail: matthew.larkum{at}gmail.com.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: M.A.N., M.E.L., and R.N.S.S. designed research; M.A.N., L.B., and S.D. performed research; H.O. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; S.D., L.B., H.O, M.A.N. analyzed data; M.A.N., H.O., wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (670118). This project also has received funding from Human Brain Project (720270 — HBP SGA1). Also, this research received support from Marie Curie fellowship, Einstein stiftung, DFG, and Neurocure Center for Excellence.

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  • Marie Curie Fellowship

  • Einstein Stiftung Berlin (Einstein Foundation Berlin)

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  • European Research Council

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Pixying Behavior: A Versatile Real-Time and Post Hoc Automated Optical Tracking Method for Freely Moving and Head Fixed Animals
Mostafa A. Nashaat, Hatem Oraby, Laura Blanco Peña, Sina Dominiak, Matthew E. Larkum, Robert N. S. Sachdev
eNeuro 14 February 2017, 4 (1) ENEURO.0245-16.2017; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0245-16.2017

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