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By Jennifer Brown
: Spring 2019
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Rewriting the brain pathway for consciousness
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Study in patients challenges conventional thinking, suggests better targets for treating coma
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With a finding that will “rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks,” University of Iowa neurologist Aaron Boes (09MD, 09PhD) and his colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway involved in keeping humans awake and conscious. Read more …