Circadian Regulation of Sleep in a Pre-Clinical Model of Dravet Syndrome: Dynamics of Sleep Stage and Siesta Re-entrainment (original) (raw)

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Abstract

Study Objectives Sleep disturbances are common co-morbidities of epileptic disorders. Dravet syndrome (DS) is an intractable epilepsy accompanied by disturbed sleep. While there is evidence that daily sleep timing is disrupted in DS, the difficulty of chronically recording polysomnographic sleep from patients has left our understanding of the effect of DS on circadian sleep regulation incomplete. We aim to characterize circadian sleep regulation in a mouse model of DS. Methods Here we exploit long-term electrocorticographic recordings of sleep in a mouse model of DS in which one copy of the Scn1a gene is deleted. This model both genocopies and phenocopies the disease in humans. We test the hypothesis that the deletion of Scn1a in DS mice is associated with impaired circadian regulation of sleep. Results We find that DS mice show impairments in circadian sleep regulation including a fragmented rhythm of NREM sleep and an elongated circadian period of sleep. Next, we characterize re-e...

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