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Advanced imaging can detect covert consciousness, offering hope for seemingly hopeless cases, experts say.
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Advanced imaging can detect covert consciousness, offering hope for seemingly hopeless cases, experts say.
Neuroscientists have documented brain activity that helps maintain 'wakefulness.' They hope their new consciousness study will one day help coma and seizure patients
In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published today in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, and Boston Children's Hospital, created a connectivity map of a brain network that they propose is critical to human consciousness.
At the base of the brain lies the brainstem, a thick rope of nerve cells that, according to new research, could sustain wakefulness in human consciousness.
A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consciousness.