From the Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan press release: Remarkably, scientists are still debating just how to reliably determine whether someone is conscious. This question is of great practical importance when making medical decisions…
From the University of Turku press release: Humans constantly experience an ever-changing stream of subjective feelings that is only interrupted during sleep and deep unconsciousness. Finnish researches show how the subjective feelings map into five…
From the San Francisco State University press release: Think you’re totally in control of your thoughts? Maybe not as much as you think, according to a new San Francisco State University study that examines how…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center media release: Philosophers have long struggled to define human consciousness. Now, a eam of researchers led by neurologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has pinpointed the regions of…
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via EurekAlert!: One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level. Some evidence suggests…
From the Thomas Jefferson University press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil analyzed the cerebral blood flow (CBF) of Brazilian mediums during the practice of…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release via MedicalXpress: Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified for the first time a pattern of brain activity that appears to…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Which areas of the brain help us to perceive our world in a self-reflective manner is difficult to measure. During wakefulness, we are always conscious of ourselves. In sleep, however,…
From the Boston University Medical Center press release via MedicalXpress: A recent study by Erika J. Wolf, PhD, and Principal Investigator Mark W. Miller, PhD, both from the National Center for PTSD at the VA…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Consciousness is a selective process that allows only a part of the sensory input to reach awareness. But up to today it has yet to be clarified which areas of…