Researchers Found On/Off Switch in Human Brain
Researchers from George Washington University (GWU) published a study claiming to have discovered the “on/off” switch inside the human brain in a region called the claustrum.
This area, where “consciousness” or “sentience” is located, can be electronically stimulated to turn off completely; however when another jolt of electro-shock is applied; the claustrum turns back “on”.
The human senses, perceptions and comprehension are located here.
Mohamad Koubeissi, professor of neuroscience from GWU and lead author of the study, noticed that when working with female epileptic patients, they lost consciousness when the claustrum was stimulated by eletricty.
When the electro-shock experiment was concluded, the women regained consciousness.
The paper reads: “Stimulation of the claustral electrode reproducibly resulted in a complete arrest of volitional behavior, unresponsiveness, and amnesia without negative motor symptoms or mere aphasia. The disruption of consciousness did not outlast the stimulation and occurred without any epileptiform discharges. We found a significant increase in correlation for interactions affecting medial parietal and posterior frontal channels during stimulations that disrupted consciousness compared with those that did not.”
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