The Panlab/Harvard Apparatus self-administration box is an entirely modular experimental enclosure designed to conduct a wide variety of different schedules for studying reward and addiction in laboratory animals.

The chamber is assembled with black aluminium walls and a transparent front door. The chambers employ a stainless-steel grid floor that allows waste to collect in a removable tray. All floor components (including the grid) are removable for systematic cleaning.

Special modules are available for self-administration and self-stimulation procedures: lever or nose-spoke, food or drink dispensers, drug delivery system and stimuli (light, sound, shockÉ). Each chamber is associated with a Link Box which provides power to up to 8 (expandable to 16) self-administration Modules conferring to the chambers a full autonomy. Only one cable connects the Link Box to the PC, this last for advanced protocol configuration and running.

All Panlab/Harvard Apparatus self-administration boxes are associated with the potent and versatile Packwin software which allows configuring any kind of user-defined schedules (training, priming, fixed-ratio, progressive ratio, extinction, relapse etcÉ) and providing relevant data in this context (number of pressing on active and inactive levers, number of injection received, pattern response graph etcÉ)