E-phys Solutions aims to provide a complete training package entirely tailored to your specific needs. Every research group has its own strengths and weaknesses, dependent on staff experience, research focus and available equipment. Every group has its own recording requirements, dependent on brain areas and activity in question.

Often the theoretical background is insufficient to make proper decisions about e-phys approaches, but advice on equipment and consumable can be invaluable as well.

If interested, E-phys Solutions  first conducts a form-based training-needs analysis and then we communicate directly with you to identify the type of training that would benefit  most, based on the desired applications.

Any necessary theoretical background is provided through interactive seminars and relevant references.

Hands on training in preparation of electrodes (e.g. ECoG screw, wire electrodes and tetrodes) and electrode-interface boards.

Training in placing and fixing of electrodes, electrode-interface boards and/or cannulae in rat/mouse cadavers.

Hands on training in placement and fixing  using aseptic surgical techniques in live animals, as allowed by the local animal experiment laws and regulations.

Training in animal aftercare and actual recording from the implanted devices and administering stimulations and drugs.

Advice on signal analysis, dependent on the acquisition/analysis software used.

Neurophysiological processes underlying  brain activity

Single neuron phsyiology

Neuronal synchronisation

Brain activity modulation

Biophysics underlying  electrophysiological recordings

Single unit recording with tetrodes

Multichannel probe recordings

Bipolar/unipolar wire electrode recordings

Skull screw ECoG

Skalp EEG recordings

Recording techniques

Electrode preparation

Electrode placement approaches

Electrode-interface board selection

Tethered recording solutions

Wireless recording solutions

Safe (dis)connection techniques

Conditioning chamber recording

Video recording synchronisation

Signal analysis principles

Signal cleaing and filtering

Spectral analysis

Coherence analysis

Current-source density analysis

Behaviour-specific  epoch selection

Drug/stimulus adminstration

Electrical stimulation electrodes

Light guides for optogenetic stimulation

Guide cannula for acute administration

Pump-operated chronic administration

Surgery techniques

Equipment selection

Anaesthesia

Brain access

Electrode placement and fixing technioques

Electrode-interface board fixing

Wound closure

Animal wellbeing

Aseptic techniques

Post-surgery analgesia

Housing conditions

Treating Infections

Food restriction regimes