Can not use macaque toolbox in version 1.6.3.3

[Xiaoyu Chen]

Hi,
I am interested in the macaque toolbox which is introduced in the manual. But when I use “lead macaque”, the pop-up window is not changed. And, when I type “ea_checkinstall(‘macaque’)”, nothing happens.
How could I do?
Best,
Xiaoyu

[ningfei]

Hi Xiaoyu,

I am afraid the manual is not updated regarding the macaque toolbox. But if you have subscribed our newsletter, you probably already got noticed that we introduced a new “Space” function in LEAD, with which you can easily switch between different spaces, including the MNI Macaque space or even your own customized space. Just click the “Space ” menu you will see all the options in the “Change current space to” submenu. It will download the needed dataset automatically if not present.

Best,
Ningfei

[andreashorn]

Hi Xiaoyu,

as Ningfei said, sorry for the outdated manual.
We used to have a proper “macaque toolbox” in the past but now generalized the workflow in lead-dbs to be (in theory) able to work in any stereotactic space you want. One could even easily add a mouse or rat space (although I think noone did that, so far). The macaque space we provide (via web-download from within the space menu in Lead-DBS) is the macaque MNI space. [You could more or less easily add a custom macaque space if you prefer so.]
So as Ningfei said, you can download the macaque MNI space from the space menu. Now we both don’t do any macaque research and probably can’t help much with macaque-specific questions. Officially, the group of Béchir Jarraya at Neurospin in Paris use and support the macaque part of Lead-DBS (you could mail to Jordy Tasserie for questions).

Hope this helps and hope it works!

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