April 27, 2021
Anesthesia doesn't simply turn off the brain, it changes its rhythms
… activity. Electrically stimulating a deeper region, the thalamus, restores synchrony of the brain’s normal higher … coordinated brain communication, in particular between the thalamus and the brain’s surface regions, or cortex, in a … the study shows, seems to bring coordination among the thalamus and cortical regions down to frequencies around just …