Dataset of long-term multi-site LFP activity with spontaneous chronic seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy rats.

The characteristics of refractory epilepsy change with disease progression. However, relevant studies are scarce due to the difficulty in obtaining long-term multi-site data from patients with epilepsy. This work aimed to provide a long-term brain electrophysiological dataset of 15 pilocarpine-treated rats with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The dataset was constituted by multi-site local field potential (LFP) signal recorded from 12 sites in the Papez circuit in TLE, including spontaneous seizures and interictal fragments in the chronic period. The LFP data were saved in MATLAB, stored in the Neurodata Without Borders format, and published on the DANDI Archive. We validated the dataset technically through specific signal analysis. In addition, we provided MATLAB codes for basic analyses of this dataset, including power spectral analysis, seizure onset pattern identification, and interictal spike detection. This dataset could reveal how the electrophysiological and epileptic network properties of the brain of rats with chronic TLE changed during epilepsy development, thus help inform the design of adaptive neuromodulation for epilepsy.