Designing of a brain stimulator suitable for intracranial self-stimulation experiments for studying the brain-stimulation reward system.

ABSTRACT

A circuit design has been developed and described for fabricating and using in the intracranial self-stimulation experiments on rat to study the brain-stimulation reward behaviour, and to explore into the underlying mechanisms of drives and motivated behaviours. The stimulator can be fabricated with parts available in India. It has been continuously used and tested during the last four years in different research studies.