Cortical signatures linked to behavior quantitatively track arousal levels.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America May 13, 2025 Sijia Gao, Yelena Bibineyshvili, Seyed A Safavynia et al.
While current arousal level assessments in patients with disorders of consciousness discriminate altered states of consciousness, there are significant limitations in characterizing the transition from one state to another or quantifying the frequent arousal level fluctuations observed in a patient. Here, we identified a repeated, temporally discrete, dynamical pattern evident in the recovery...