{"id":211035,"date":"2025-04-10T02:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/general-anesthesia-reduces-uniqueness-of-brains-functional-fingerprint-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-04-10T02:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:17:47","slug":"general-anesthesia-reduces-uniqueness-of-brains-functional-fingerprint-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/general-anesthesia-reduces-uniqueness-of-brains-functional-fingerprint-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"General anesthesia reduces uniqueness of brain\u2019s functional \u2018fingerprint,\u2019 study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/general-anesthesia-reduces-uniqueness-of-brains-functional-fingerprint-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past psychology research suggests that different people display characteristic patterns of spontaneous thought, emotions and behaviors. These patterns make the brains of distinct individuals unique, to the point that neuroscientists can often tell them apart based on their neural activity.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at McGill University, University of Cambridge and other institutes recently carried out a study aimed at investigating how general anesthesia influences the unique neural activity signatures that characterize the brains of different people and animals.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02121-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Human Behavior<\/i>, show that general anesthesia suppresses each brain\u2019s unique functional connectivity patterns (i.e., the connections and communication patterns between different regions of the brain), both in humans and other species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past psychology research suggests that different people display characteristic patterns of spontaneous thought, emotions and behaviors. These patterns make the brains of distinct individuals unique, to the point that neuroscientists can often tell them apart based on their neural activity. Researchers at McGill University, University of Cambridge and other institutes recently carried out a study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211035","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}