Every year, approximately 130,000 Dutch people suffer some form of acquired brain injury. The causes can be traumatic such as a fall or road-traffic accident, but also a brain hemorrhages or lack of ...
Birch is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and author of “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” A stroke, a traumatic brain injury — ...
The minimally conscious state (MCS) is a clinical condition characterized by severely reduced but present awareness of self and the environment. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has ...
Sometimes, following a brain injury, patients have periods of wakefulness but can't communicate with those around them. Might they still be feeling pain, pleasure or discomfort? Could it be that they ...
I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker was overflowing with ideas to treat disorders of consciousness, which include ...
Patients with brain injury who are unresponsive to commands may perform cognitive tasks that are detected on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG). This ...
Every year, approximately 130,000 Dutch people suffer some form of acquired brain injury. The causes can be traumatic such as a fall or road-traffic accident, but also a brain hemorrhages or lack of ...
Sometimes, following a brain injury, patients have periods of wakefulness but can’t communicate with those around them. Might they still be feeling pain, pleasure or discomfort? Could it be that they ...