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 …

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) …

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

Functional MRI and electrophysiology studies suggest that consciousness depends on large-
scale thalamocortical and corticocortical interactions. However, it is unclear how neurons in …

There have been a number of advances in the search for the neural correlates of
consciousness—the minimum neural mechanisms sufficient for any one specific conscious …

The mystery of general anesthesia is that it specifically suppresses consciousness by
disrupting feedback signaling in the brain, even when feedforward signaling and basic …

This paper presents Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness 3.0, which
incorporates several advances over previous formulations. IIT starts from phenomenological …

One challenging aspect of the clinical assessment of brain-injured, unresponsive patients is
the lack of an objective measure of consciousness that is independent of the subject's ability …

The analysis of spontaneous EEG activity and evoked potentials is a cornerstone of the
instrumental evaluation of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC). The past few …

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 …