Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

For cardiac arrest patients who subsequently undergo PCI, their degree of consciousness before the procedure is a strong predictor of in-hospital outcomes, according to observational data from ...

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 ...

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so “We were trying to find a way to quantify how conscious these ...

A letter, signed by 124 scholars and posted online last week, has caused an uproar in the consciousness-research community. It argues that a prominent theory describing what makes someone or something ...

You must have heard one more time from somewhere that our brains are literally made of the same ‘star stuff’ as the universe.truncate But it gets way weirder. A 2016 study claimed scientists had ...

Emerging trends and new developments in the care and management of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are increasingly focused on a multidisciplinary approach that integrates ...

In the stillness of sleep, some people wake up — without ever opening their eyes. They become aware, mid-dream, that they’re dreaming. They explore their fantasies with the same sense of self as they ...