Demonstration and Training Facility

Behavioral, Neurological, & Physiological Research Products

Catamount Research and Development, Inc. offers both onsite training and product demonstration at our St. Albans, Vermont Science Center.

The Catamount training and demonstration facility is located in the historic town of Saint Albans, just 20 minutes north of Burlington. Vermont is consistently rated one of the most beautiful states in the country, and is home to the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain. Summer water sports and outdoor recreation, as well as some of the best skiing in the Eastern United States are all readily available in Vermont. Ski resorts such as Jay Peak, Smugglers Notch, and Stowe are located within a 25 to 40 minute drive from Med Associates Inc.

Catamount offers training and demonstrations with our extensive line of equipment as well as most lines of Med Associates Inc. equipment, designed for behavioral, neurological & physiological research.

Learning and Memory:
  • Cued and Contextual Conditioning
  • Passive/ Active Avoidance
  • T-maze
  • Morris Water Maze
  • Radial Maze
  • Olfactory Learning & Memory
  • Straight Alley
  • Social Memory
  • Barnes Maze
  • Conditioned Fear
  • Holeboard
  • Place Recognition
  • Fear-Potentiated Startle
Depression:
  • Tail Suspension
  • Forced Swim
  • Differential Reinforcement of Low Rate of Responding (DRL)
  • Holeboard
  • Intracranial Self Stimulation
  • Social Interaction
Fear/Anxiety:
  • Light Dark Exploration
  • Elevated Plus-Maze
  • Ultrasonic Vocalization
  • Active/Passive Avoidance
  • Conditioned Fear
  • Fear Potentiated Startle
  • Open Field
  • Vogel Conflict
Drug Abuse
  • Place Conditioning
  • Intracranial Self-Stimulation
  • Sensitization/Withdrawal
  • Intravenous Self-Administration
  • Drug Discrimination
  • Alcohol Consumption
 Attentional Deficits:
  • Prepulse Inhibition of Startle
  • Latent Inhibition
  • Passive/Active Avoidance
 Activity/Motor Deficits
  • Open/Field
  • Circadian Wheel Running
  • Rota-Rod
Physiological Research:
  • MyoMed Myograph -
    Muscle Contractility in Vitro
  • Cystometry - Assessment of Bladder Function