{"id":102632,"date":"2020-02-21T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T03:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-wake-monkeys"},"modified":"2020-02-21T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T03:45:27","slug":"researchers-wake-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-wake-monkeys","title":{"rendered":"Researchers wake monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-wake-monkeys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small amount of electricity delivered at a specific frequency to a particular point in the brain will snap a monkey out of even deep anesthesia, pointing to a circuit of brain activity key to consciousness and suggesting potential treatments for debilitating brain disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Macaques put under with general anesthetic drugs commonly administered to human surgical patients, propofol and isoflurane, could be revived and alert within two or three seconds of applying low current, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(20)30005-2\">published today in the journal Neuron<\/a> by a team led by University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison brain researchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor as long as you\u2019re stimulating their brain, their behavior \u2014 full eye opening, reaching for objects in their vicinity, vital sign changes, bodily movements and facial movements \u2014 and their brain activity is that of a waking state,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/saalmannlab.psych.wisc.edu\/staff\/saalmann-phd-yuri-b\/\">Yuri Saalmann<\/a>, UW\u2013Madison psychology and neuroscience professor. \u201cThen, within a few seconds of switching off the stimulation, their eyes closed again. The animal is right back into an unconscious state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small amount of electricity delivered at a specific frequency to a particular point in the brain will snap a monkey out of even deep anesthesia, pointing to a circuit of brain activity key to consciousness and suggesting potential treatments for debilitating brain disorders. Macaques put under with general anesthetic drugs commonly administered to human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102632","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}