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fromInsideHook
1 month ago

Treatment for Epilepsy Expands Understanding of Sleep

Disconnected cortical tissue can enter a deep NREM sleep-like state while the person remains awake, with implications for consciousness, memory, and brain-injury responses.
fromNature
1 month ago

Disconnecting part of the brain sends it into a deep sleep

The team wanted to find out whether the disconnected part has some form of awareness - or was capable of exhibiting consciousness, says co-author Marcello Massimini, a neurophysiology researcher at the University of Milan in Italy. "The question arises because we have no access" to the disconnected region, he says, adding that it was unclear what happens once part of the brain is isolated.
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