I am trying to induce insomnia in Wistar rats by sleep-deprivation. The sleep/wake rhythm needs to be monitored, hence sleep monitoring device or band.
This publication may be of help:
Tao Zeng, Christopher Mott, Daniel Mollicone, and Larry Sanford
Automated determination of wakefulness and sleep in rats based on non-invasively acquired measures of movement and respiratory activity J Neurosci Methods. 2012 Mar 15; 204(2): 276–287.
Leyira
My advice: to score do not use automated system, do it yourself, make contiunuos 72hs of S-W records (at least) previous 3 days of habituation to the recording system. What do you mean by "band" to measure S-W rhythm?
I don't know if is the best, but it's easy to implement.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15590930
I monitor rats using EEG recording in both the frontal cortex and hippocampus area. So I can capture different sleep stages (especially REM stage) more accurately. From my experience, rats sleep in 3-4 hr block during the day and the blocks get shorter later in the afternoon. It is easy to distinguish SW and REM sleep from the awake stage. Drowsiness awake or stage 1 sleep is the hardest and it is best to monitor the behaviour (head up and eye close).
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