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. 2012 Feb 1;35(2):211–221. doi: 10.5665/sleep.1624

Table 1A.

Overview of experimental protocol

Training Sleep Deprivation Sleep Fragmentation Surgeries Recovery Local Infusions
± 12 weeks 3 weeks 1 week 3 weeks 1 week 1 week 3 weeks

Rats performed the switch-task on all workdays (but not in the week of surgery). Experiments were performed over the course of one week (see Table 1B), the two experimental weeks within one experiment were separated by one week of daily testing while otherwise undisturbed in the home cage.