wakefulness

Also known as being awake, awake

Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world.

Research

42,003 papers

Sleep-Wake Neurochemistry.Sleep medicine clinics · 2022
The pharmacology of wakefulness.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2006
Evolution of wakefulness, sleep and hibernation: from reptiles to mammals.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2010
Connectivity dynamics from wakefulness to sleep.NeuroImage · 2020
Nocturnal Wakefulness and Suicide Risk in the Australian Population.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2022

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Effects upon the brain
Maintenance by the brain
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Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world.

Being awake is the opposite of being asleep, in which most external inputs to the brain are excluded from neural processing.