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Some peculiarities of time-frequency dynamics of spike-wave discharges in humans and rats
D Bosnyakova1, A Gabova, A Zharikova
1Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Objective:
Time-frequency dynamics of spike-wave discharges (SWDs) were investigated in patients with absence seizures and in WAG/Rij rats, a genetic model of absence epilepsy using a specially developed wavelet transform.
Methods:
Two types of SWDs were analyzed in both species: the most frequently occurring discharges (of minimal 3.6-4.0 s or more) and shorter ones recorded from various cortical regions.
Results:
The more prolonged discharges had two phases: during the initial part (from tenth of seconds to 1 s) of the seizure the frequency decreased quickly from 5 to 3.5 Hz in patients and from about 15 to 10 Hz in rats. A slower frequency decrease with periodical fluctuations was observed in both species during the second part of the discharge: the frequency decreased towards the end of the discharge to 3 Hz in patients and to 6-7 Hz in rats. The frequency of the short discharges decreased fast during the whole discharge: from 5 to 2-2.5 Hz and from about 15 to 5 Hz in patients and rats, respectively.
Conclusions:
Comparison of data obtained in patients with typical absence epilepsy and WAG/Rij rats with genetic absence epilepsy revealed that the time-frequency dynamics of SWDs had similar properties but in a different frequency range.
Significance:
The study of time-frequency dynamics using this specially developed wavelet transform revealed two different types of SWDs, which most likely represent different dynamics in the cortico-thalamo-cortical loop during shorter and more prolonged discharges.
