Potential use of actigraphy to measure sleep in monkeys: comparison with behavioral analysis from videography.

ABSTRACT: Sleep is indispensable for human health, with sleep disorders initiating a cascade of negative consequences. As our closest phylogenetic relatives, non-human primates (NHPs) are invaluable for comparative sleep studies and exhibit tremendous potential for improving our understanding of human sleep and related disorders. Previous work on measuring sleep in NHPs has mostly used electroencephalography or videography. In this study, simultaneous videography and actigraphy were applied to observe sleep patterns in 10 cynomolgus monkeys ( Macaca fascicularis) over seven nights (12 h per night). The durations of wake, transitional sleep, and relaxed sleep were scored by analysis of animal behaviors from videography and actigraphy data, using the same behavioral criteria for each state, wit

SUBMITTER: Qin DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340525 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature