Wheel Running Information

General equipment has a brake and can detect direction and speed of individual bouts of running
One wall has a lever and three nosekeys, a food dispensor and a water spout.

    Rat pressing lever                                                                Rat running
      

Download video clip of a rat pressing the lever 10 times (FR 10) to gain access to running for 10 sec.
 

Below:
Display examples of waveform characteristics of individual bouts of wheel running.

Vertical axis: Speed
Horizontal axis: Time.

Above red line: Clockwise running, below red line: Counterclockwise running

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