Objective To update the 1995 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) practice parameter on
persistent vegetative state and the 2002 case definition on minimally conscious state (MCS) …

The concept of consciousness continues to defy definition and elude the grasp of
philosophical and scientific efforts to formulate a testable construct that maps to human …

Background and purpose Patients with acquired brain injury and acute or prolonged
disorders of consciousness (DoC) are challenging. Evidence to support diagnostic decisions …

Options for people with severe paralysis who have lost the ability to communicate orally are
limited. We describe a method for communication in a patient with late-stage amyotrophic …

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain
and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness …

Natural communication often occurs in dialogue, differentially engaging auditory and
sensorimotor brain regions during listening and speaking. However, previous attempts to …

Auditory stimulus reconstruction is a technique that finds the best approximation of the
acoustic stimulus from the population of evoked neural activity. Reconstructing speech from …

Functional neuroimaging and electrophysiology studies are changing our understanding of
patients with coma and related states. Some severely brain damaged patients may show …

The clinical presentation of basilar artery occlusion (BAO) ranges from mild transient
symptoms to devastating strokes with high fatality and morbidity. Often, non-specific …

Consciousness is subjective experience. During both sleep and anesthesia consciousness
is common, evidenced by dreaming. A defining feature of dreaming is that, while conscious …