Explore to what extent brain plasticity can be modified with environmental enrichment.
The goal is to trigger specific behavior such as foraging, hiding, exploring, building, feeding, and exercising to stimulate mice or rats models as if they were living in their natural environment. Enrichment is widely used to investigate mice's social interaction, cognitive aging, individual development, brain plasticity, learning, memory, anxiety-like behavior, and many others.
Some of the solutions considered to promote natural behavior in rodents can be done by grouping animals together, providing shelter items, mazes, food rewards, toys, or any items that involve the recreation of a natural behavior - such as a wheel for exercising