[gibs0ns]

Do you know of, or can recommend, any studies on this "waking up the neural pathways" effect? I'm wondering what is happening here, surely it's more than simply firing those pathways as I'd imagine that to happen within seconds as opposed to the day or so it took him to recover. Thanks

[mantap]

IANAN but I think "waking up neural pathways" can be understood to mean making new synaptic connections, a process that is not instant and could potentially take a day if the existing connections were intact.

[sammorrowdrums]

Often requiring sleep too I believe, with specific brain activity that simply doesn't occur while awake.