Functional Observation Battery

**Semantic type:** Intellectual Product

**Definition:** A neurobehavioral assessment tool developed by Virginia Moser in 1989 composed of a battery of observational tests used to quantitatively assess the behavioral and neurologic integrity of laboratory rats exposed to chemicals. (Virginia Moser, Screening Approaches to Neurotoxicity: A Functional Observational Battery; JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TOXICOLOGY; 8(1) 85-93, 1989; Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers)

**Synonyms:** - FUNCTIONAL OBSERVATION BATTERY