The School of Psychology behavioural and cognitive neuroscience laboratories provide extensive and well-equipped facilities in which to undertake a variety of experimental techniques for the study of brain and behaviour. The equipment has been purchased through various grants from the Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, MRC and the University of St Andrews

Resources include:

• fully equipped surgical suite — David Kopf stereotaxic equipment, operating microscopes, inhalation anesthesia etc.
• fully equiped enzyme-immunoassay lab for hormone analysis, including analysis of non-invasively collected samples
• operant equipment, including nine-hole boxes and Skinner boxes (mostly Med Associates) some of which are set up for drug self-administration or electrophysiological experiments
• locomotor activity monitor system for rodents
• various mazes, including 8 arm radial maze, elevated plus maze and T-maze
• in vivo microdialysis and HPLC-EC for monoamines and metabolites
• facilities for carrying out electrophysiological unit recording experiments
• fully equipped histology labs, with both cryostat and sliding microtome facilities
• microscopy and image analysis suite
• excellent School workshop facilities for the construction of both miniature (for example, electrodes and micropipettes) and major items (such as mazes).
• excellent technical support, for both husbandry, histology, computing and mechatronics