🔬 Published Studies & Validations

Peer-reviewed studies and preprints that have used SimBA, plotted by country and summarized across species, journals, and the behaviors, brain regions, and methods they report. Compiled from the public use-case spreadsheet and the full text of the collected papers.

Data pulled August 14, 2026

149published studies

29countries

20species

71journals

165institutions

Studies by country

Darker = more studies. Each study is counted once per country; multi-country studies count in each. Hover a country for its total.

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Institutions & locations

One pin per institution; size & colour scale with the number of studies. Hover a pin for its study list.

studies per institution:123–45–78+

Studies per year

Publications by calendar year; the current year is to-date.

By continent

Studies grouped by the continent of each contributing country.

Studies by species

Animal model studied (top 10 by study count).

Top countries

Most studies by country (top 20).

All institutions

Every contributing institution by study count (number of studies shown at left); each counted once per study it contributed to.

11University of Washington

7Washington University in St. Louis

6KU Leuven

5EMBL Rome

5University of Hong Kong

5National Institute on Drug Abuse

5Universitat Jaume I

5Stanford University

5University of North Carolina

4Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

4Harvard Medical School

4University of Texas at Austin

4Lehigh University

4Polish Academy of Sciences

4New York University

4University of Calgary

3Karolinska Institutet

3Weizmann Institute of Science

3National Institutes of Health

3University of Geneva

3Platea Biosciences

3Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

3National Institute of Mental Health

3University of the Basque Country

3Florida Atlantic University

3University of Amsterdam

3University of California San Diego

3Cornell University

2University College London

2Medical Research Council Harwell

2City University of Hong Kong

2University of Haifa

2Universidade de Lisboa

2Medical College of Wisconsin

2Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2University of Toronto

2Technische Universität Darmstadt

2Columbia University Irving Medical Center

2Macquarie University

2UNSW Sydney

2University of Pennsylvania

2Biobizkaia Health Research Institute

2McGill University

2Concordia University

2Cadi Ayyad University

2Georgetown University Medical Center

2Université de Bordeaux

2University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

2EPFL

2Washington State University

2Texas A&M University

2Columbia University

2UNAM

2Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

2University College Cork

2Michigan State University

2Northwestern University

1Humboldt University

1Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.

1University of Illinois at Chicago

1Arctic University of Norway

1BROAD Institute

1Harvard Stem Cell Institute

1DLH Corporation

1University of South Florida

1CaaMTech

1University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

1Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

1Hospital for Sick Children

1Johannes Gutenberg University

1Boston University Medical Center

1McLean Hospital

1VA Boston

1Université Laval

1SMART Biomedical Microsystems Laborator Université de Sherbrooke

1Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

1Ningbo University

1Ningbo Institute of Oceanography

1Aquatic Technology Promotion Station of Xiangshan County

1University of Milan

1IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital

1Université Côte d’Azur

1National Research Council of Italy

1Roche

1Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine

1The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

1University of South Florida Health

1University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

1Southeast University

1Nanjing Medical University

1University of Melbourne

1Instituto de Salud Carlos III

1Charles University

1Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

1Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

1Heidelberg University

1Inscopix

1Amherst College

1Federal University of Paraíba

1Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

1Emory University

1Deakin University

1Florey Institute

1University of Cambridge

1Salk Institute for Biological Studies

1Netholabs

1University Miguel Hernández

1Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

1Donders Institute

1Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine

1HUN-REN Biological Research Centre

1ELTE Eötvös Loránd University

1The International Brain Laboratory

1Kindai University

1Osaka University

1Gifu University

1Kobe University

1Hiroshima University

1Fujita Health University

1Nagoya University

1Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick

1Royal Hospital for Women

1Monash University

1George Washington University

1Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González

1Centros de Integración Juvenil

1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

1University of Cagliari

1Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

1Wayne State University

1Srinakharinwirot University

1New York State Psychiatric Institute

1University of British Columbia

1University of Oxford

1Rosalind Franklin University

1Peking University School of Life Sciences

1University of Warsaw

1University of Tennessee

1Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1Duke University

1Icahn School of Medicine

1National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders

1CIBERsam-ISCiii

1Linköping University

1Mahidol University

1Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

1University of Tsukuba

1Massachusetts General Hospital

1TU Dresden

1Shinshu University

1Carnegie Mellon University

1University of Bonn

1Yale School of Medicine

1University of Saskatchewan

1Dalhousie University

1Vanderbilt University

1University of Nebraska

1Philipps-University Marburg

1MCCI Corporation

1Georgia State University

1Qingdao University

1Penn State University

1University of Texas

1University of Wisconsin-Madison

1University of Arizona

Behaviours automated

INDICATIVE, NOT EXHAUSTIVE. What SimBA was used to score, read from the methods text of the collected papers: a behaviour counts once per study when it is named near a SimBA mention and near a classifier/scoring cue. Most studies score several. Keyword-based, so uncommon behaviours may be undercounted.

Brain regions

INDICATIVE, NOT EXHAUSTIVE. Papers naming each region anywhere in their full text.

Methods & tools

INDICATIVE, NOT EXHAUSTIVE. What the studies pair SimBA with — recording methods, molecular assays, and the other behaviour tools they cite.

Disease & behavioural models

INDICATIVE, NOT EXHAUSTIVE. Models, conditions and paradigms the papers study.

What SimBA has been used for

Concepts appearing across the full text of 168 downloaded studies — methods, behaviours, brain regions, models and compounds. Larger = mentioned in more papers. Keyword-based overview (indicative, not exhaustive). Updated July 30, 2026.

Zebrafish RNA-seq Stereotypy Immobility Operant task Cocaine Habenula Acetylcholine B-SOiD Drosophila EthoVision Periaqueductal gray Paraventricular nucleus Startle Nesting Primate Cannabinoid Parkinson's Long-Evans Wistar rat Prefrontal cortex SLEAP Testosterone Transgenic Oxycodone Methamphetamine BNST Fluoxetine / SSRI THC / cannabis BALB/c Cerebellum Burrowing Sniffing Aggression BORIS Two-photon Corticosterone Striatum Fiber photometry SHAP Social novelty Fentanyl Morphine Social memory Extinction Self-administration ADHD Social interaction Dentate gyrus Neuropathic pain Chronic stress Digging Sprague-Dawley Immunohistochemistry Freezing Insula Thalamus Endocannabinoid Anxiety Licking Tremor Object recognition Psilocybin Buprenorphine Entorhinal cortex Depression Schizophrenia Vasopressin Three-chamber Lateral septum Scratching Amphetamine DeepLabCut VTA Jumping / escape Glutamate Obesity / diet Autism Open field CD1 Cingulate Mating Nucleus accumbens GABA BDNF Locus coeruleus Alzheimer's Calcium imaging Oxytocin Opioid MDMA Social defeat Substantia nigra Diazepam Somatostatin Fear conditioning Huntington's Prepulse inhibition Orbitofrontal cortex Cortisol Y-maze Place preference Estrogen Aging Climbing Haloperidol Grooming Pup retrieval Hippocampus Avoidance MoSeq Songbird Dorsal raphe Sleep / circadian Addiction Prelimbic / infralimbic VAME Neuroinflammation Locomotion C57BL/6 Rotarod LSD Electrophysiology Epilepsy MK-801 Amygdala Clozapine Stroke / ischemia Reinstatement DMT TopScan / CleverSys Dopamine Circling Optogenetics Spatial memory AnyMaze Head-twitch Preoptic area Maternal separation Feeding Hypothalamus Nicotine DREADD c-Fos Ultrasonic vocalisation Novel object Orexin Serotonin Parvalbumin Ethanol / alcohol Gait Rearing Basolateral amygdala Crayfish / crustacean Norepinephrine A-SOiD Forced swim Ketamine Knockout Elevated plus maze PTSD CRF Resident-intruder

Full list of studies (spreadsheet) → · one entry per study · multi-country studies counted in each country