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Paper
How Absence Seizures Impair Sensory Perception: Insights from Awake fMRI and Simulation Studies in Rats
2024
Overview
Absence seizures are characterized by regular and generalized spike-and-wave electrical patterns in the brain, resulting in unresponsiveness to environmental stimuli. In patients suffering absence epilepsy, recurring seizures can significantly decrease their quality of life and lead to yet untreatable comorbidities. The whole-brain spatial and temporal characteristics of reduced responsiveness to external stimulus remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate responsiveness to visual and somatosensory whisker stimulation in GAERS, a well-established rat model for absence epilepsy. Animals were imaged continuously using a quiet zero-echo-time (ZTE) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) sequence while in a non-curarized awake state, allowing for naturally occurring seizures to be produced inside the 9.4T magnet. Sensory stimulations were applied in 28 fMRI sessions during interictal and ictal periods, as assessed by concurrent electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, and whole brain responsiveness and hemodynamic responses were compared between these two states. Additionally, a mean-field simulation model was used to mechanistically explain the changes of neural responsiveness to visual stimulation between interictal and ictal states. Results showed that whole-brain responses to both sensory stimulations were suppressed and spatially hindered during a seizure. In several cortical regions, hemodynamic responses were negatively polarized during seizures, despite the application of a stimulus. The simulation results agreed well with fMRI findings, showing restricted propagation of spontaneous activity due to stimulation. These results suggest that sensory processing observed during an interictal state is hindered or even suppressed by the occurrence of an absence seizure potentially contributing to decreased responsiveness.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.Footnotes* Several sections of the manuscript were clarified and simplified to be more accessible to readers who are less familiar with animal experiments. Also, implementation and interpretations of brain simulations were modified to be more precise. We have reformatted the sentences discussing the mechanism of spike and wave discharges. Labels for fMRI maps in Figures 3 and 5 were added and cross sections enlarged. Potential mixture of stimulation and seizure related signals in ictal stimulation conditions were discussed. Repetitive use of isoflurane was discussed in the supplementary information. Figure 1, figure supplement 2 and Figure 6, figure supplement 2, were added.* https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8104455
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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