USES : to identify anxiolytic and anxiogenic drugs , conflict behavior study...
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I°) Apparatus :
* Rack of 16 box
* Each box is composed of 2 partitions : 1 is dark and 1 is lighted. Each cage is equipped of a bottle which can be electrified, of a "licks" detector and of an animal detector in the dark area.
 
This rack is connected to an electronic interface, which permits the communication with the computer.
II°)Software: 
software for windows
1 cage representation on the screen
 
The software for windows permits to manage 1 rack of 16 box. Each box can be managed independently.
 
* Exercises' edition (thanks to the array at the bottom of the cage representation, see above), it permits to create an exercises' library.
* Animal graphic representation,
* Activity, "licks", punishments and their kinetics recording.
* Replay a record;

* Moreover, the system is sold with a program which permits to manage recorded experiments. It permits notably to combine your files so as to compare results and to gain disk space. The output variables' presentations and their kinetics can be visualised either with whatever software which accepts the text format (Notepad, Wordpad, Word...) or with EXCEL.