Theories of consciousness

AK Seth, T Bayne - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

Recovery from disorders of consciousness: mechanisms, prognosis and emerging therapies

BL Edlow, J Claassen, ND Schiff… - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021‏ - nature.com
Substantial progress has been made over the past two decades in detecting, predicting and
promoting recovery of consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) …

[HTML][HTML] Conscious processing and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis

GA Mashour, P Roelfsema, JP Changeux, S Dehaene - Neuron, 2020‏ - cell.com
We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace
(GNW) hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding …

European Academy of Neurology guideline on the diagnosis of coma and other disorders of consciousness

D Kondziella, A Bender, K Diserens… - European journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Patients with acquired brain injury and acute or prolonged
disorders of consciousness (DoC) are challenging. Evidence to support diagnostic decisions …

Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness

BL Edlow, M Olchanyi, HJ Freeman, J Li… - Science Translational …, 2024‏ - science.org
Consciousness is composed of arousal (ie, wakefulness) and awareness. Substantial
progress has been made in map** the cortical networks that underlie awareness in the …

Systematic evaluation of fMRI data-processing pipelines for consistent functional connectomics

AI Luppi, HM Gellersen, ZQ Liu, ARD Peattie… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Functional interactions between brain regions can be viewed as a network, enabling
neuroscientists to investigate brain function through network science. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness

JF Storm, PC Klink, J Aru, W Senn, R Goebel… - Neuron, 2024‏ - cell.com
How is conscious experience related to material brain processes? A variety of theories
aiming to answer this age-old question have emerged from the recent surge in …

Deep brain stimulation of the thalamus restores signatures of consciousness in a nonhuman primate model

J Tasserie, L Uhrig, JD Sitt, D Manasova, M Dupont… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Loss of consciousness is associated with the disruption of long-range thalamocortical and
corticocortical brain communication. We tested the hypothesis that deep brain stimulation …

Making the hard problem of consciousness easier

L Melloni, L Mudrik, M Pitts, C Koch - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
The history of science includes numerous challenging problems, including the “hard
problem”(1) of consciousness: Why does an assembly of neurons—no matter how complex …

Heritability and interindividual variability of regional structure-function coupling

Z Gu, KW Jamison, MR Sabuncu… - Nature Communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
White matter structural connections are likely to support flow of functional activation or
functional connectivity. While the relationship between structural and functional connectivity …