Thalamic deep brain stimulation paradigm to reduce consciousness: Cortico-striatal dynamics implicated in mechanisms of consciousness.

Anesthetic manipulations provide much-needed causal evidence for neural correlates of consciousness, but non-specific drug effects complicate their interpretation. Evidence suggests that thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) can either increase or decrease consciousness, depending on the stimulation...

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Main Authors: Michelle J Redinbaugh, Mohsen Afrasiabi, Jessica M Phillips, Niranjan A Kambi, Sounak Mohanta, Aeyal Raz, Yuri B Saalmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010294