Part of Your Brain Acts Like a Pause Button That Freezes Your Whole Body
Deeply focused, our bodies can enter a literal state of suspended animation. Our limbs freeze. Breathing ceases. Heart rate slows. The Universe constricts until there is nothing but the task at hand. If we're anything like the mice studied in a recent investigation by researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, a selection of cells in a part of the brainstem called the pedunculopontine…