Part I: General Morphological Assessments
1. Histopathological Assessments of Animal Models of Cerebral Ischemia
Ami P. Raval and Bingren Hu
2. Assessment of Cell Death: Apoptosis, Necrosis, or In Between
Tom Genetta, Ling Wei, and Shan Ping Yu
3. The Stereology and 3D Volume Analyses in Nervous Tissue
Rabindra P. Singh, Li Shen, and Feng C. Zhou
4. Assessments of Reactive Astrogliosis Following CNS Injuries
Candace L. Floyd
Part II: General Physiological Assessments
5. Physiological Assessment in Stroke Research
Casey Lee Hall, Osama Mohamad, Shan Ping Yu, and Ling Wei
6. EEG, Evoked Potential (EP), and Extracellular Single Unit Recordings In Vivo
Jie Wu
7. Intracellular Recording In Vivo and Patch-Clamp Recording on Brain Slices
Ping Deng and Zao C. Xu
8. Electrophysiological Evaluation of Synaptic Plasticity in Injured CNS
Xiaoming Jin
Part III: General Biochemical and Molecular Biological Assessments
9. Characterization of RNA
Marcel P. Van der Brug, Mar Matarin, and Taura L. Barr
10. MicroRNA Expression Profiling of Rat Blood and Brain Tissues: TaqMan Real-Time PCR MicroRNA Assays
Da-Zhi Liu, Bradley P. Ander, and Frank R. Sharp
11. Protein Analysis
Anthony Kian-Fong Liou and Jun Chen
12. Application of Zymographic Methods to Study Matrix Enzymes Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Lesley K. Harris, Raiford T. Black, Thomas M. Reeves, and Linda L. Phillips
Part IV: General Neurobehavioral Assessments
13. Rodent Behavioral Assessment in the Home Cage Using the SmartCageTM System
Xinmin Simon Xie, Jingxi Zhang, Bende Zou, James Xie, Jidong Fang, Nurulain T. Zaveri, and Taline V. Khroyan
14. Assessments of Cognitive Function Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Wendy M. Reid and Dong Sun
15. Assessment of Cognitive and Sensorimotor Deficits
Richard E. Hartman
16. Emotional and Anxiety Assessments in CNS Disorders
Zaorui Zhao and Junfang Wu
Part V: General Neuroimaging Assessments
17. Neuroimaging Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury
Janna L. Harris and William M. Brooks
18. Imaging of Myelin by Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy
Ji-Xin Cheng
Part VI: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
19. Grading Scales for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Andrew Losiniecki and Mario Zuccarello
20. Acute Physiologic and Morphologic Assessment Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Vincent DiNapoli and Mario Zuccarello
21. Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Grading in Animal Models
Robert Ayer, Takashi Sugawara, and John H. Zhang
22. Physiological Assessments of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Jens P. Dreier
23. Spreading Depolarization
Clemens Reiffurth, Sergei A. Kirov, and Jens P. Dreier
24. Assessment of Neurovascular Coupling
Cecilia Nicoletti, Nikolas Offenhauser, Devi Jorks, Sebastian Major, and Jens P. Dreier
25. Assessment of Global Ischemia
Fatima A. S