Consciousness and the Brain
Efficacy and safety of electro acupuncture treatment in improving the consciousness of patients with traumatic brain injury: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... of consciousness (DOC) such as coma, a vegetative state, or a minimally conscious state ...deep brain stimulation demonstrated a remarkable behavioral recovery in patients with TBI ...
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Consciousness: a Simpler Approach to the Mind-Brain Problem
... reduce brain function to discreet ...of brain process in space and time implicit in the latter does not admit the possibility of a unified mind and ...explain consciousness. It explains the synchrony ...
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The partial brain thought experiment: partial consciousness and its implications
... partial brain is described. It is argued that consciousness must gradually vanish in this case, not by fading but by becoming more and more ...of consciousness, tends to support the plausibility of ...
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A gaze-independent audiovisual brain-computer Interface for detecting awareness of patients with disorders of consciousness
... evoked ERP components. Another reason lies in the consciousness fluctuation in DOC patients with time. ERP correlates in relation to semantic process cannot be effectively evoked due to low consciousness ...
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Mind, brain, consciousness: toward a new scientific synthesis?
... On the basis of the evidence available from physics, chemistry, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, it is highly probable that the capacities of hu- man mind are neurobiologically deter- mined. In saying that this ...
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Functional near infrared spectroscopy as a probe of brain function in people with prolonged disorders of consciousness
... the brain function in people with pDOC is com- plex and complicated by multiple interacting motor, sensory and cogni- tive ...task-induced brain activity changes in pDOC patients using a motor imagery ...
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Significance of circadian rhythms in severely brain-injured patientsA clue to consciousness?
... and brain func- tioning, very little is known about circadian rhythms in patients diagnosed with a disorder of consciousness (DOC) following a severe brain ...
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Is consciousness a product of the brain or/and a divine act of God? Concise insights from neuroscience and Christian theology
... ordinary consciousness and awareness as revealed by evolutionary science and spiritual ...occurring consciousness as was shown, while spiritual consciousness is metaphysical in its ...the ...
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Interpretation of Mind and Consciousness and Possible Interrelationship among Consciousness, Mind, Brain and Matter through the Consciousness Model
... of consciousness/mind have become increasingly ...that brain science must look to the neuron for understanding, and on the other side are certain physicists, suggesting that the rules of quantum theory ...
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Non-invasive EEG-based brain-computer interfaces in patients with disorders of consciousness
... of consciousness (DoCs) are chronic conditions resulting usually from severe neurological ...including brain-computer interfaces ...be brain-computer ...EEG-based brain-computer interfaces in ...
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Depth of anesthesia assessment and higher brain function modelling for consciousness
... Monitoring of this ill-defined phenomenon is a complex challenge. Current moni- tors rely on processed EEG to estimate Depth of Anaesthesia (DoA). EEG based monitors have yet to prove their benefit (Bleijenberg, van ...
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Depth of anesthesia assessment and higher brain function modelling for consciousness
... 23 exemplars extracted from 64 second segments of raw EEG from the other four patients. This index falls after the administration of each agent. The DoA produced increases after each agent. This index appears to respond ...
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The theory of brain sign: a physical alternative to consciousness
... This is a novel concep t, so recap itu lation m ay help . In the case of bees, com m u nication is straightforw ard , in that the sign conveyed in the w orld by the m ovem ents of the signing bee can be absorbed by the ...
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Communication without consciousness: the theory of brain sign
... Michael Graziano, on the other hand, proposes to eliminate the mind-body problem with the theory that awareness is a neural description of attention. Attention is causal neural function; awareness “is an informational ...
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<p>Emerging role of prodromal headache in patients with anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis</p>
... of consciousness), CSF, brain MRI abnormalities, and modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score were compared between patients with and without ...with brain MRI abnormalities, antibody titers, and mRS score ...
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HOW TO SEPARATE CONCEPTUAL ISSUES FROM EMPIRICAL ONES IN THE STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
... of consciousness to make the brain work (the physical world is causally ...to brain processing needs to show, not that the view from either the first- or third-person perspective is false, but rather ...
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Consciousness & Time: A Time Based Model of the Evolution of Consciousness
... of consciousness is that only humans have the ...of consciousness in a wide range of animal species: First, a pattern of EEG activity in the range of 20 - 70 Hz, typically linked to wakefulness and REM ...
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Lithium Quantum Consciousness
... Fisher has been developing ideas on nuclear spin quantum information processing as an explanation for the workings of the conscious mind. He highlights the long established positive effects that lithium has on those ...
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Epidemiological Analysis of Surgically Treated Acute Traumatic Epidural Hematoma
... Traumatic brain injury (TBI) or head trauma is a major public health issue worldwide because it is the leading cause of death for patients between second and fourth ...of consciousness (LOC), followed by a ...
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in patients with traumatic brain injury
... traumatic brain injury or from a traumatic injury to the cervical spine within the last five ...of consciousness for at least 12 hours (N = 31); for the remaining 15 participants injury there was no loss of ...
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