Music therapy can help children recover from serious brain injuries, suggests a new study. Researchers say music could provide a breakthrough in assessing consciousness levels in youngsters who have ...

A new study tests an alternative to external stimulation for measuring when subjects lose and regain responsiveness during sedation and anesthesia. Studies of consciousness often run into a common ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland — Key measures of continuous electroencephalography (EEG) can offer important insights into patient consciousness that might otherwise not be evident with the more traditional ...

Amsterdam, March 7, 2024 – Emerging trends and new developments in the care and management of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are increasingly focused on a multidisciplinary approach ...

A researcher analyzed papers from more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and found that signs of consciousness persist long ...

What does this mean for the EEG's ability to reflect consciousness? "The study does support the possibility that certain EEG features might not always accurately capture the level of consciousness in ...

To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

How does a low-level sensory representation rise into conscious awareness? What determines whether higher-order cortical areas have access to the representational content in sensory regions? Although ...