Behavioral unresponsiveness and impaired auditory event-related potentials in the anterior insula during rat absence seizures.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology October 7, 2025 Stefan Sumsky, Rory Ashmeade, Jiayang Liu et al. preprint
Absence epilepsy is marked by sudden lapses in consciousness accompanied by spike-wave discharges (SWDs), yet the neural mechanisms underlying impaired sensorimotor processing in these episodes remain unresolved. Prior work has shown that normal-appearing signals can persist in primary sensory cortical areas during seizures, suggesting that impaired behavioral responsiveness may arise from...