A human intracranial map of consciousness returning from anesthesia
bioRxiv Preprint Server June 17, 2026 Xinyu Chen, Haoru Zhang, Xinran Deng et al. preprint
How consciousness arises from the brain remains a central yet unsolved question. Although substantial effort has been devoted to characterizing the neural correlates of conscious perception during wakefulness, how consciousness re-emerges from unconscious states remains poorly understood. Here, we took advantage of the rare opportunity to record human intracranial local field potentials from...