We describe a high-throughput method of measuring sleep by means of activity-based home-cage monitoring. This method offers advantages over traditional EEG-based methods. It is well validated for the determination of total sleep duration and can be a powerful tool to monitor sleep in rodent models of human disease.
Saré, R. M., Lemons, A., Torossian, A., Beebe Smith, C. Noninvasive, High-throughput Determination of Sleep Duration in Rodents. J. Vis. Exp. (134), e57420, doi:10.3791/57420 (2018).