behavior/neurological
• a slight decrease in activity during the dark period is seen
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• during the dark period mutants have a longer latency to sleep (226 min compared to 28 min for wild-type) and overall the total amount of non-REM sleep is reduced (9h 54min compared to 11h 24min for wild-type
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• during the dark period mutants have a longer latency to sleep (226 min compared to 28 min for wild-type) and overall the total amount of non-REM sleep is reduced (9h 54min compared to 11h 24min for wild-type
• increased delta wave power is seen during non-REM sleep
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• during the light period mutants display fragmented sleep with frequent brief wakenings, more total wake bouts, and non-REM bouts are much shorter
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nervous system
• transient or repeated hyperpolarization fails to inhibit action-potential firing
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• tonic hyperpolarization fails to evoke action-potential firing in mutant thalamic projection neurons
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