There are published sleep scoring manuals.
Rechtschaffen and Kales for human sleep, or Ursin and Sterman for cat.
These will show you what the EEG looks like in the various sleep stages.
I know these are not rat sleep, but cat and rat sleep EEGs are very
similar.
Bob
nienhuis at ucla.edu
Jean-Etienne Poirrier wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am a B.Sc. student at the university of Liege (Belgium) doing my B.Sc.
> thesis on protein expression in rats hippocampus. For a part of my job, I
> had to record rat sleep. A kind physician recording EEG in humans show me
> how to record. But now I have raw data, I cannot find how to interpret
> them.
>> Hopefully, I look at both the recording and the rat. So I know when he's
> asleep and when he's awake. But that's all :-(
>> Could someone give me some advice, web links, publications, articles, books
> references ?
>> Many thanks in advance,
> Jean-Etienne Poirrier
