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Stroke and brain ischemia
From 2021 to 2025, 1,278 animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia mentioned at least one behavioral test, most often the Morris water maze.
That is 1.5 times the 836 papers of 2011 to 2015. Papers that mention any of the 90 tests grew to 1.2 times as many over the same span.
The tests these papers mention
The rotarod appears in 19% of the papers on stroke and brain ischemia and in 5.7% of all 32,277 papers that mention a test. That makes it 3.4 times as common in this research. Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 on stroke and brain ischemia that mention the test, with its share of the 1,278 papers. A paper that mentions two tests counts under both.
The 15 tests these papers mention most
All 57 tests these papers mention
| Test | Papers | Share of the 1,278 papers on stroke and brain ischemia | Share of all 32,277 papers that mention a test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morris water maze | 405 | 32% | 17% |
| Rotarod | 245 | 19% | 6% |
| Open field | 159 | 12% | 12% |
| Novel object recognition | 133 | 10% | 9% |
| Grid walking (foot fault) | 99 | 8% | under 1% |
| Beam walking | 99 | 8% | 2% |
| Grip strength | 76 | 6% | 4% |
| Y-maze | 75 | 6% | 6% |
| Cylinder test | 71 | 6% | 1% |
| Adhesive removal test | 70 | 5% | under 1% |
| Treadmill running | 67 | 5% | 6% |
| Corner test | 55 | 4% | under 1% |
| Sucrose preference test | 53 | 4% | 5% |
| Gait analysis | 52 | 4% | 3% |
| Forced swim test | 50 | 4% | 9% |
| Elevated plus maze | 46 | 4% | 9% |
| Skilled reaching | 35 | 3% | under 1% |
| Passive avoidance | 35 | 3% | 4% |
| Tail suspension test | 29 | 2% | 4% |
| Barnes maze | 27 | 2% | 2% |
| Wheel running | 26 | 2% | 3% |
| Wire hang and inverted grid | 25 | 2% | 1% |
| Ladder rung walking | 23 | 2% | under 1% |
| Fear conditioning | 18 | 1% | 6% |
| Negative geotaxis and climbing assays | 17 | 1% | 1% |
| Pole test | 12 | 1% | under 1% |
| Radial arm maze | 12 | 1% | 1% |
| T-maze | 10 | 1% | 1% |
| Active avoidance (shuttle box) | 8 | 1% | 1% |
| Light-dark box | 7 | 1% | 2% |
| Object location test | 7 | 1% | 1% |
| Von Frey test | 7 | 1% | 4% |
| Operant conditioning | 6 | under 1% | 3% |
| Touchscreen operant tasks | 5 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Olfactory tests | 5 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Nest building | 4 | under 1% | 1% |
| Three-chamber sociability test | 4 | under 1% | 1% |
| Novelty-suppressed feeding | 4 | under 1% | 1% |
| Social interaction test | 4 | under 1% | 1% |
| Step-down avoidance | 3 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle | 2 | under 1% | 2% |
| Hole-board | 2 | under 1% | 1% |
| Marble burying | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
| Hargreaves plantar test | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
| Catalepsy bar test | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
| Self-administration | 1 | under 1% | 4% |
| Predator odor exposure | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
| Hot plate | 1 | under 1% | 2% |
| Burrowing | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Attentional set shifting | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Active place avoidance | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Novel tank test | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
| Puzzle box | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Radial arm water maze | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Rotational behavior (rotometer) | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Five-choice serial reaction time task | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Splash test | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
Papers by year
Animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention a behavioral test, by year, 2001 to 2026
The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.
- Papers in a full year
- 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 41 |
| 2002 | 51 |
| 2003 | 57 |
| 2004 | 69 |
| 2005 | 79 |
| 2006 | 94 |
| 2007 | 98 |
| 2008 | 111 |
| 2009 | 106 |
| 2010 | 118 |
| 2011 | 147 |
| 2012 | 146 |
| 2013 | 186 |
| 2014 | 170 |
| 2015 | 187 |
| 2016 | 192 |
| 2017 | 231 |
| 2018 | 213 |
| 2019 | 245 |
| 2020 | 259 |
| 2021 | 256 |
| 2022 | 231 |
| 2023 | 240 |
| 2024 | 252 |
| 2025 | 299 |
| 2026 (part year) | 280 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 1,278 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the other species in this chart.
Which papers count
A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions at least one of the 90 tests and studies stroke and brain ischemia.
A paper counts under stroke and brain ischemia when its MeSH terms, the subject headings PubMed adds when it indexes a paper, include one of these.
- Stroke, with the headings under it
- Ischemic Stroke
- Brain Ischemia
- Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery
- Cerebral Infarction
- Hemorrhagic Stroke
- Cerebral Hemorrhage
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain
- Ischemic Attack, Transient
For a paper PubMed has not indexed, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, supplies the disease model when it finds the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model.
Each paper and its disease models are in the downloads. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.
More disease models
These disease models also have a page, with their papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention a test. Each disease model with 100 or more such papers gets one.
- Cognitive impairment and dementia 4,961
- Anxiety 3,041
- Depression 2,827
- Pain conditions 2,617
- Alzheimer disease 2,445
- Substance use disorders 1,599
- Psychological stress 1,484
- Parkinson disease 918
- Brain injury 841
- Diabetes 795
- Obesity and high-fat diet 761
- Aging 700
- Epilepsy and seizures 572
- Autism spectrum disorder 484
- Schizophrenia and psychosis 401
- Sleep loss and sleep disorders 400
- Post-traumatic stress 392
- Spinal cord injury 382
- Multiple sclerosis and demyelination 223
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 108
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 107
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Behavioral tests in stroke and brain ischemia research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/stroke
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_stroke_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Behavioral tests in stroke and brain ischemia research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/stroke},
note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}Shop apparatus by test
Our store sells apparatus for nine of the 10 tests these papers mention most, all but the adhesive removal test.
- Morris water maze
- Rotarod
- Open field
- Novel object recognition
- Grid walking (foot fault)
- Beam walking
- Grip strength
- Y-maze
- Cylinder test
