The Iowa Neuroscience Institute’s new Neural Circuits and Behavior Core (NCBC) is open to support members of the University of Iowa community.

The NCBC was created to enable UI researchers to investigate neural circuit function in health and disease using tools that are often not available within individual labs. The NCBC provides facilities and services to aid investigators in performing behavioral assays of motor and sensory function, learning and memory, anxiety-like behaviors, social interaction, and sleep. The NCBC also provides imaging facilities and services for investigating the neural substrates of these behaviors, including a recently acquired LaVision UltraMicroscope II lightsheet microscope (left) for fast volumetric imaging of cleared brains.

The NCBC can perform experiments for investigators or train lab personnel to perform the experiments in the facility.

Please see the NCBC website for information about the equipment and services available and how to access them.