Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Neuron. 2023 May 3;111(9):1440-1452.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.003. Epub 2023 Feb 24.
Epilepsy is a major disorder affecting millions of people. Although modern electrophysiological and imaging approaches provide high-resolution access to the multi-scale brain circuit malfunctions in epilepsy, our understanding of how behavior changes with epilepsy has remained rudimentary. As a result, screening for new therapies for children and adults with devastating epilepsies still relies on the inherently subjective, semi-quantitative assessment of a handful of pre-selected behavioral signs of epilepsy in animal models. Here, we use machine learning-assisted 3D video analysis to reveal hidden behavioral phenotypes in mice with acquired and genetic epilepsies and track their alterations during post-insult epileptogenesis and in response to anti-epileptic drugs. These results show the persistent reconfiguration of behavioral fingerprints in epilepsy and indicate that they can be employed for rapid, automated anti-epileptic drug testing at scale.
癫痫是一种影响数百万人的主要疾病。尽管现代电生理学和成像方法提供了对癫痫多尺度脑回路功能障碍的高分辨率访问,但我们对行为如何随癫痫而变化的理解仍然很初步。因此,筛选针对儿童和成人破坏性癫痫的新疗法仍然依赖于对动物模型中少数预先选择的癫痫行为迹象进行内在主观、半定量评估。在这里,我们使用机器学习辅助的 3D 视频分析来揭示获得性和遗传性癫痫小鼠的隐藏行为表型,并在创伤后癫痫发生期间和对抗癫痫药物的反应中跟踪它们的变化。这些结果表明癫痫中行为特征的持续重新配置,并表明它们可以用于快速、自动的抗癫痫药物大规模测试。