A Constant Power Shock Source and Electronic Grid Scrambler with an Historical Introduction

Abstract

By means of a brief historical resume are considered some of the problems encountered when administering electric shock to laboratory animals during behavioral experiments, principally via use of the grid floor. The complexity of the variable electric shock leads us to suggest that there is no simple quantitative and qualitative characterization of electric shock. An apparatus is described for administering electric current to a grid floor; it incorporates an optimum compromise of theoretical, electrical, and mechanical techniques presently available.