About

Axona Ltd is based in St. Albans, north of London, U.K., and supplies data acquisition hardware and software hardware for behavioural neuroscientists, especially in the domain of electrophysiological recording, experimental control and data analysis.

We specialise in 'turnkey' systems that are intended to be easy to use even without extensive electronics knowedge. Our dacq data acquisition system includes multichannel spike and EEG acquisition, video tracking, stimulation and electrode microdrives. A new USB-based data acquisition system has just been released: this enables recording of up to 64 channels (128 coming shortly) with only a PC and a desktop recoding unit. Please contact us for details.

Axona maintains close links with the academic community and recognises that no two experimental requirements are the same. We specialise in designing tailor-made hardware and software solutions to unique experimental problems and offer a high level of customer support, particularly to new users.

Publications arising from Axona systems

Hafting T, Fyhn M, Molden S, Moser MB, Moser EI. (2005) Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature 436:801-6.

Leutgeb S, Leutgeb JK, Treves A, Moser M-B., Moser EI (2004). Distinct ensemble codes in hippocampal areas CA3 and CA1. Science 305: 1295-1298.

Wills TJ, Lever C, Cacucci F, Burgess N, O'Keefe J. (2005) Attractor dynamics in the hippocampal representation of the local environment. Science 308:873-6.

Fyhn M, Molden S, Witter MP, Moser E, Moser M-B (2004) Spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex. Science 305: 1258-1264.

Cacucci F, Lever C, Wills TJ, Burgess N, O'Keefe J. (2004) Theta-modulated place-by-direction cells in the hippocampal formation in the rat. J Neurosci. 24:8265-77.

Chakraborty S, Anderson MI, Chaudhry AM, Mumford JC, Jeffery KJ. (2004)
Context-independent directional cue learning by hippocampal place cells.
Eur J Neurosci. 20:281-92.

Hayman RM, Chakraborty S, Anderson MI, Jeffery KJ. (2003) Context-specific acquisition of location discrimination by hippocampal place cells.Eur J Neurosci. 18:2825-34.

Huxter J, Burgess N, O'Keefe J. (2003) Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature 425:828-32.

Anderson MI, Jeffery KJ. (2003) Heterogeneous modulation of place cell firing by changes in context. J Neurosci.23:8827-35.

Jeffery KJ, Gilbert A, Burton S, Strudwick A. (2003) Preserved performance in a hippocampal-dependent spatial task despite complete place cell remapping.
Hippocampus 13:175-89.

Jeffery KJ, Anderson MI. (2003) Dissociation of the geometric and contextual influences on place cells. Hippocampus 13:868-72.

Fyhn M, Molden S, Hollup SA, Moser M-B., Moser EI (2002) Hippocampal neurons responding to first-time dislocation of a target object. Neuron 35: 555-566.

Brun VH, Otnæss MK., Molden S, Steffenach H-A, Witter MP, Moser M-B, Moser E.I. (2002). Place cells and place representation maintained by direct entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry. Science 296: 2089-2284.

Lever C, Wills T, Cacucci F, Burgess N, O'Keefe J. (2002) Long-term plasticity in hippocampal place-cell representation of environmental geometry.
Nature 416:90-4.

Hollup SA, Molden S, Donnett JG, Moser MB, Moser EI (2001). Place fields of rat hippocampal pyramidal cells and spatial learning in the watermaze. European Journal of Neuroscience 13: 1197-1208.

Hollup SA, Molden S, Donnett JG, Moser MB, Moser EI. (2001) Accumulation of hippocampal place fields at the goal location in an annular watermaze task.
J Neurosci. 21(5):1635-44.

Jeffery KJ.(1998) Learning of landmark stability and instability by hippocampal place cells. Neuropharmacology 37:677-87.

Jeffery KJ, Donnett JG, Burgess N, O'Keefe JM.(1997) Directional control of hippocampal place fields. Exp Brain Res. 117:131-42.