Table 2: Cognitive and behavioural testing in mice and rodent models.

S. No	Test Name	Measurements	Brain function	Disease targeted	Strain	reference
1	Contextual fear conditioning.	Fear memory	Hippocampal, neocortex and cerebellum functions	DMD/BMD	mdx	46
	Unconditioned fear response.	Anxiety
	Openfield activity.	Spatial learning
	Water maze
2	Avoidance Tests	Rapid one-trial learning	–	DMD/BMD	Mdx mice	47
	Passive Avoidance Test	Avoidance response
3	Morris Water Maze	Spatial learning	Hippocampus	DMD/BMD	Mdx mice/ C57BL/10 control	48
		Visual acuity
4	Restraint	Freezing response	–	DMD/BMD	mdx mice	39
	Electrical footshock	Fear Conditioning
	Elevated plus maze
5	Operant learning task	Learning and memory tasks, spatial working memory	Hippocampal and forebrain function	DMD/BMD	mdx 3 cv	40
	Delayed spontaneous alternation task in a T-maze
6	The touchscreen testing method.	Reward learning, memory, perceptual discrimination, objectplace associative learning, attention, impulsivity, compulsivity, Extinction.	Hippocampal functions	Schizophrenia	Rats & rodents	49
	Visual Discrimination and Reversal: The TUNL Task: Working memory and pattern separation.		Focus on dentate gyrus and neurogenesis dependent pattern separation
7	The Location Discrimination (LD) task:	Visual discrimination	neurogenesis dependent pattern separation	–	–	50
8	Transverse-pattern task	Non-spatial learning	Hippocampal function	NMDA induced memory impairment.	CA1-NR1 knockout mice	51
9	Latent Inhibition	selective attention, Hyperactivity	–	ADHD	Coloboma mouse model	52
10	Morris Water Maze	Spatial learning Visual acuity	Hippocampus, neocortex	AD	Swiss albino mice	53
11	Radial Maze	spatial learning	–	Y chromosome induced complexity	Inbred mouse strains, NZB and CBArH,	54
12	Environmental Enrichment	–	Increased sensory motor stimulation	Down’s Syndrome	Ts65Dn mice	55