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.
Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309.
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D000818:Animals; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats