Although the relationship between anesthesia and consciousness has been investigated for
decades, our understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms of anesthesia and …

: Anesthesia is the process of inducing and experiencing various conditions, such as
painlessness, immobility, and amnesia, to facilitate surgeries and other medical procedures …

A complex system is often associated with emergence of new phenomena from the
interactions between the system's components. General anesthesia reduces brain …

Background: The wakeful brain can easily access and coordinate a large repertoire of
different states—dynamics suggestive of “criticality.” Anesthesia causes loss of criticality at …

Recent neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that spontaneous brain activity exhibits
rich spatiotemporal structure that can be characterized as the exploration of a repertoire of …

Effective treatment and accurate long-term prognostication of patients with disorders of
consciousness (DOC) remain pivotal clinical issues and challenges in neuroscience …

Introduction Identifying biomarkers for depression from brain activity is important for the
diagnosis and treatment of depression disorders. We investigated spatial correlations of the …

Hypnosis is a psychological intervention that is commonly used to enhance the effectiveness
of therapeutic suggestions. Despite extensive fascination and study, the neural mechanisms …

The prognosis of neurological outcomes in patients with prolonged Disorders of
Consciousness (pDoC) has improved in the last decades. Currently, the level of …

Decoding emotional neural representations from the electroencephalographic (EEG)-based
functional connectivity network (FCN) is of great scientific importance for uncovering …