External Resources
The following page lists external resources are important and informative for people working with behavioural experiments in UUBF's facilities.
Research ethics and 3Rs
Planning and reporting behavioural research
Other
The behavioural forum: an online forum dedicated to the discussion of animal behavior experiments, with a focus on home cage monitoring techniques. The Forum aims to improve both scientific excellence and animal welfare. It covers topics like experimental protocols, equipment, data interpretation, training, conferences, and job opportunities. Developed by the EU COST action "Improving biomedical research by automated behaviour monitoring in the animal home-cage".
Further reading
- Good Research Practice in Non-Clinical Pharmacology and Biomedicine, 2020
- M C Michel, 2020, New Author Guidelines for Displaying Data and Reporting Data Analysis and Statistical Methods in Experimental Biology
- S C Stanford, 2017, Confusing Preclinical (Predictive) Drug Screens With Animal 'Models' of Psychiatric Disorders, or 'Disorder-Like' Behaviour, Is Undermining Confidence in Behavioural Neuroscience
- The COST Manual of Laboratory Animal Care and Use: Refinement, Reduction, and Research, 2016