To investigate the co-morbid Alzheimer's disease (AD) and stroke condition in a novel model, three behavior tasks are described that assess both motor control and cognitive behaviors. These tasks include the beam-walk task, cylinder task and Morris water maze.
Au, J. L., Weishaupt, N., Nell, H. J., Whitehead, S. N., Cechetto, D. F. Motor and Hippocampal Dependent Spatial Learning and Reference Memory Assessment in a Transgenic Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease with Stroke. J. Vis. Exp. (109), e53089, doi:10.3791/53089 (2016).