Measuring behavioral activity -- Techniques of electric shock motivation -- Aversive learning situations : apparatus and procedures -- Assessing the effects of drugs -- Manipulation of the oral and gastric environments -- Long-term intravenous infusion -- Methods for perfusing different structures of the brain -- The neurobiological assay -- Specialized lesions : the split-brain technique -- Specialized lesions : "Cerveau Isolé" and "Encephale Isolé" -- The use of microknives in brain lesion studies and the production of isolated brain-stem islands -- Inducing cortical spreading depression -- Recording evoked potentials.