Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) use brain activity to control external devices, thereby
enabling severely disabled patients to interact with the environment. A variety of invasive …

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 …

In recent years, numerous electrophysiological signatures of consciousness have been
proposed. Here, we perform a systematic analysis of these electroencephalography markers …

Background Bedside clinical examinations can have high rates of misdiagnosis of
unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (vegetative state) or minimally conscious state. The …

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

The past 15years have provided an unprecedented collection of discoveries that bear upon
our scientific understanding of recovery of consciousness in the human brain following …

Patients surviving severe brain injury may regain consciousness without recovering their
ability to understand, move and communicate. Recently, electrophysiological and …

OBJECTIVE: To determine if brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) could serve as supportive
tools for detecting consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness by detecting …

The locked-in syndrome (LIS) describes patients who are awake and conscious but severely
deefferented leaving the patient in a state of almost complete immobility and loss of verbal …