Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness.
Science Translational Medicine May 1, 2024 Brian L Edlow, Mark Olchanyi, Holly J Freeman et al. 39 citations
Consciousness is composed of arousal (i.e., wakefulness) and awareness. Substantial progress has been made in mapping the cortical networks that underlie awareness in the human brain, but knowledge about the subcortical networks that sustain arousal in humans is incomplete. Here, we aimed to map the connectivity of a proposed subcortical arousal network that sustains wakefulness in the human...