An inexpensive microdrive for chronic single-unit recording.
A microdrive and microelectrode costing about $2.67 is described. The assembly is lightweight, compact, and versatile and is ideal for chronic single-unit recording from behaving rats. It is easy to assemble and operate and has been used successfully by undergraduates in the teaching and research laboratory.
Goldberg
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Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309.
Minerbo
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Smock
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D000818:Animals; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats