{"id":214131,"date":"2025-05-16T05:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/deep-brain-regions-link-all-senses-to-consciousness-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-05-16T05:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:19:25","slug":"deep-brain-regions-link-all-senses-to-consciousness-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/deep-brain-regions-link-all-senses-to-consciousness-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Deep brain regions link all senses to consciousness, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deep-brain-regions-link-all-senses-to-consciousness-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness\u2014a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate different parts of the brain, a new Yale-led study indicates that multiple senses all stimulate a critical region deep in the brain that controls consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1053811925002277\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>NeuroImage<\/i>, sheds new light on how <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sensory+perception\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensory perception<\/a> works in the brain and may fuel the development of therapies to treat disorders involving attention, arousal, and consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness\u2014a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more. Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long [\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-214131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214131","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=214131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}