{"id":102422,"date":"2020-02-16T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/monkeys-wake-from-anaesthetic-when-brain-region-linked-to-consciousness-is-stimulated"},"modified":"2020-02-16T09:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:22:50","slug":"monkeys-wake-from-anaesthetic-when-brain-region-linked-to-consciousness-is-stimulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/monkeys-wake-from-anaesthetic-when-brain-region-linked-to-consciousness-is-stimulated","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys Wake From Anaesthetic When Brain Region Linked to Consciousness Is Stimulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monkeys-wake-from-anaesthetic-when-brain-region-linked-to-consciousness-is-stimulated3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later today I\u2019ll lose consciousness for a few hours to rest and repair. There\u2019s a good chance you will, too. Yet as ubiquitous as sleep is, we know very little about which parts of the brain are fundamental to staying awake.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a recent experiment that stimulated the brains of anaesthetised macaques, we have a clearer idea of just which neurological structures might be primarily responsible for switching us on each day.<\/p>\n<p>The results not only help us to better understand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-might-have-been-totally-wrong-about-how-anaesthesia-blocks-consciousness\">processes behind anaesthesia<\/a>; for those trapped in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/disorders-of-consciousness\/\">vegetative or comatose states<\/a> by illness or injury it could mean a pathway out again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later today I\u2019ll lose consciousness for a few hours to rest and repair. There\u2019s a good chance you will, too. Yet as ubiquitous as sleep is, we know very little about which parts of the brain are fundamental to staying awake. Thanks to a recent experiment that stimulated the brains of anaesthetised macaques, we have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}