{"id":224464,"date":"2025-11-04T01:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brains-and-stock-markets-follow-the-same-rules-in-crisis-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:17:34","slug":"brains-and-stock-markets-follow-the-same-rules-in-crisis-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brains-and-stock-markets-follow-the-same-rules-in-crisis-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Brains and stock markets follow the same rules in crisis, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brains-and-stock-markets-follow-the-same-rules-in-crisis-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do brains and the stock market have in common? While this might sound like a set-up for a joke, new research from U-M researchers reveals that the behaviors of brains and economies during crises can be explained using observations common in the realm of physics. Their work is <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2505434122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>UnCheol Lee, Ph.D. of the U-M Department of Anesthesiology and his collaborative team came up with the idea upon observing that some patients under anesthesia recover faster than others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnesthetic drugs can be considered as introducing a controlled crisis in the brain, interrupting the brain\u2019s network to induce unconsciousness,\u201d explained Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do brains and the stock market have in common? While this might sound like a set-up for a joke, new research from U-M researchers reveals that the behaviors of brains and economies during crises can be explained using observations common in the realm of physics. Their work is published in the journal Proceedings of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,23,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-humor","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224464","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=224464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}