AutoSom: Automated sleep-deprivation system

AutoSom^tm enables fully-automated, non-invasive, “hands-off” control and monitoring of rodent sleep/wake activity. No human supervision is required. We use automated sensors to track the animal’s every move in its cage.

Using a specially-developed Vibration-pad cage floor, an infrared array, and custom algorithmic computer processing, AutoSom^tm can distinguish whether the mouse or rat is awake or asleep.

AutoSom^tm can also automatically and chronically impose two methods to control the sleep of the test subjects: pdf for sleep-deprivation system

• Time-dependency: controlled by the default setting (user can change the wakeup time schedule)
• State-dependency: automatic ‘sleep-specific’ deprivation, chronic sleep restriction, and sleep “fragmentation”