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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Neurology Année : 2024

Epileptic seizure clustering and accumulation at transition from activity to rest in GAERS rats

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Knowing when seizures occur may help patients and can also provide insight into epileptogenesis mechanisms. We recorded seizures over periods of several days in the Genetic Absence Epileptic Rat from Strasbourg (GAERS) model of absence epilepsy, while we monitored behavioral activity with a combined head accelerometer (ACCEL), neck electromyogram (EMG), and electrooculogram (EOG). The three markers consistently discriminated between states of behavioral activity and rest. Both GAERS and control Wistar rats spent more time in rest (55–66%) than in activity (34–45%), yet GAERS showed prolonged continuous episodes of activity (23 vs. 18 min) and rest (34 vs. 30 min). On average, seizures lasted 13 s and were separated by 3.2 min. Isolated seizures were associated with a decrease in the power of the activity markers from steep for ACCEL to moderate for EMG and weak for EOG, with ACCEL and EMG power changes starting before seizure onset. Seizures tended to occur in bursts, with the probability of seizing significantly increasing around a seizure in a window of ±4 min. Furthermore, the seizure rate was strongly increased for several minutes when transitioning from activity to rest. These results point to mechanisms that control behavioral states as determining factors of seizure occurrence.
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hal-04453625 , version 1 (12-02-2024)

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Hieu Tran, Reda El Mahzoum, Agnès Bonnot, Ivan Cohen. Epileptic seizure clustering and accumulation at transition from activity to rest in GAERS rats. Frontiers in Neurology, 2024, 14, pp.1296421. ⟨10.3389/fneur.2023.1296421⟩. ⟨hal-04453625⟩
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